Vscode Unit Tests

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Debugging javascript running in Chrome using VSCode

Installation steps:

  • Install mocha NPM module
    •         npm install
        npm install mocha chai --save-dev
        sudo npm install -g mocha
  • Install Debugger for Chrome plugin in VSCode
  • Copy the node_modules/mocha folder to your public (or public/lib) folder
  • Copy the node_modules/chai folder to your public (or public/lib) folder
  • Include mocha in the page you want to debug
    •         <html>
          <head>
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/mocha/mocha.css">
          </head>
          <body>
            <script src="lib/mocha/mocha.js"></script>
            <script src="lib/chai/chai.js"></script>
            <script>mocha.setup('bdd')</script>
            <div id="mocha">
            </div>
            <script>
              mocha.run();
            </script>
          </body>
        </html>

You can use chai to run unit tests in NodeJS application by including chai and using mocha to run tests

    # Include this in the script you need to debug
    var chai = require('chai')

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