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karma-browserifast

0.7.0 • Public • Published

karma-browserifast

Browserify your JavaScript on the fly when testing with Karma.

Installation

Install with npm:

npm install karma-browserifast

Configuration

tl;dr version:

module.exports = function (karma) {
    karma.set({
        frameworks: ["browserify"],
 
        // Files that are to be loaded as globals
        files: [
            "node_modules/es5-shim/es5-shim.js"
        ],
 
        // Files to browserify
        browserify: {
            files: [
                "test/**/*.js"
            ]
        },
 
        // Hopefully temporary hack
        preprocessors: {
            "/**/*.browserify": "browserify"
        }
 
        // ...
    });
};

Somewhat more elaborate version

Add "browserify" to your list of frameworks in karma.conf, e.g.:

frameworks: ["browserify"]

Any tests or other files to browserify should not be listed in Karma's files configuration. Instead, use the browserify key. This accepts the same list as files, e.g. filenames as strings, and/or objects with pattern, served, included and watched properties.

// Files that are to be loaded as globals
files: [
    "node_modules/es5-shim/es5-shim.js"
],
 
// Files to browserify
browserify: {
    files: [
        "test/**/*.js",
        { pattern: "integration/**/*.js",
          watched: false }
    ]
}

The last step is a temporary hack that we hope to get rid of very soon:

preprocessors: {
    "/**/*.browserify": "browserify"
}

What is this? karma-browserifast works by adding a file to Karma's list of files. This file resides in your OS tmp directory, and if you set the log level to karma.LOG_DEBUG, karma-browserifast will tell you the exact file name. This file is empty, and the above pre-processor provides the content Karma will use. This content is of course the browserified JavaScript.

The reason for this somewhat elaborate approach is that Karma's framework hook does not wait for asynchronous operations, meaning we can't browserify in this hook. The pre-processors however, are asynchronous, thus this hack. We're investigating how to fix this weirdness.

Optional configuration options

browserify: {
    debug: true
}

Adds sourcemaps to your Browserify bundle.

File watching

When you move files from Karma's list of files to the browserify list, you also opt out of Karma's watching feature. Don't worry, karma-browserifast has your back. It tells Karma to watch its bundle, and updates this whenever your files change. The Karma autoWatch configuration option, as well as individual files configurations (e.g. watch: true|false), are respected. If autoWatch is true, dependencies resolved by browserify will be watched in addition to files explicitly enumerated.

Alternatives

There's also karma-browserify, however, we found its performance to be unacceptable as the number of files in our project increases. karma-browserify adds a pre-processor that browserifies all known files each time a new file is passed to it. This means that for n files, karma-browserify will run browserify n! times and write to the same file n times. This quickly becomes noticably slow.

BSD 2-clause License

Copyright (c) 2014, Jostein Holje and Christian Johansen All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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