question: Nodal.mocha

[Christopher Hiller]

Hi,

Was wondering what drove the creation of TestRunner & the like? Did you simply want to be able to declare classes? If it's just sharing things like the endpoint() function, this can be accomplished by attaching a before() or beforeEach() hook to the implied "root" suite:

// test/fixture.js
beforeEach(function () {
  this.foo = 'bar';
});

// test/test.spec.js
const assert = require('assert');

describe('my thing', function () {
  it('should equal "bar"', function () {
    assert.ok(this.foo === 'bar');
  });
});

Tangentially, endpoint() seems analogous to Hapi's server#inject(). This has uses beyond just testing; maybe it could be exposed in Application?

[Christopher Hiller]

I'm going to assume you want to keep the classes, but please let me know if I can be of any assistance with Mocha otherwise.