Deprecation note
Since ES6/7 with babel+webpack/browserefy becomes usefull this days RequireJS looks a bit outdated.
ReactJS community have a lot of sample code written in ES6/7 in isomorphic style.
Boilerplate for Karma-runner + mocha + chai + requirejs
This is boilerplate with ready to TDD:
- karma-runner: http://karma-runner.github.io/0.8/index.html
- mocha: http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/
- chai: http://chaijs.com/
- sinon: http://sinonjs.org/
- RequireJS: http://requirejs.org/
See details: http://karma-runner.github.io/0.8/plus/RequireJS.html
Directories layout
$ tree
.
├── js
│ ├── lib => place for source files
│ ├── spec => place for *_spec.js files
│ │ └── sample_spec.js
│ └── vendor => place for vendor libs
├── karma.conf.js => karma-runner configuration
├── karma_html => html-reporter output (appears after first run)
├── karma_sound => samples for customization karma-mp3-reporter (see karma.conf.js)
├── package.json
├── test => according to mocha.opts specific this directory contains:
│ ├── mocha.opts >> default ARGV opts for mocha console command (not used for front-end js)
│ └── test-main.js >> requirejs entry point for tests
├── README.md
└── UserStories.md => mind-set for building this project
Setup
$ npm install
Start karma
$ karma start
Additional features
Besides usual components this boilerplate contains:
- karma-mp3-reporter (https://github.com/x2es/karma-mp3-reporter) which adds mp3 notifications for red/green / sucess/fail/error events
- karma-html-reporter (https://github.com/dtabuenc/karma-html-reporter) which builds html report for each tests invokation