What are the best Node.js test frameworks?

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What are the best Node.js test frameworks?

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Best Node.js test frameworks	Price	Last Updated
-- Mocha	-	Oct 27, 2017
-- Jasmine	-	Oct 9, 2017
-- tape	-	May 2, 2017

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Mocha

Top Pro

Supports Promises

You can return a Promise from BDD hook methods (before, beforeEach, after, afterEach) and, with Chai as Promised, you can assert fluently against units under test that return Promises. See More

Top Con

Can be intimidating for beginners

While some testing frameworks are complete out of the box, Mocha requires developers to select and set up assertion libraries and mocking utilities. For someone who is just starting to learn how to build tests this can be scary as they will also have to choose which libraries to use and learn them too. See More

Top Pro

Makes Asynchronous testing extremely easy

No need to write tricky statements for Async testing. Mocha gives you a done callback. Place this done parameter in your callback function, that'll let Mocha know that you've written an asynchronous function. See More

Top Pro

Runs in Node.js and the browser

Mocha has a browser build as well as a node command line program so you can test in client and server side environments. See More

Top Pro

Supports different assertion libraries

Mocha runs independently from the assertion library, so you can choose which assertion format works best for you. Mocha most often is run in combination with assertion library Chai. See More

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Custom full color test reporters

Mocha has multiple test reporters built in and you can create your own as well. The test reporters have full color and makes it easy to see if your tests fail or not. See More

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Write tests with Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Allows developers to choose their development process. Not only TDD but also BDD. See More

Top Pro

Integrates really well with NodeJS

The Mocha test framework itself runs on NodeJS, hence it makes everything related to it extremely simple. With Mocha's simple syntax and speed, testing your node.js app just got a whole lot easier. See More

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Supports programatically skipping tests

If your integration tests depend on an external system that may go down, you can programmatically skip tests using this.skip(). See More

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Easy to add support for Generators

Aside from the numerous benefits with generators in your application, You can now also integrate generators into your test suite. By using mocha, all you have to do is enable support for generators. See More

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Jasmine

Top Pro

Integrates very well with Ruby on Rails

The jasmine-rails gem allows you to run Jasmine specs in a browser (powered by Rails engine mounted into your application). See More

Top Con

Maintainers are not very responsive to pull requests

Pivotal aren't responsive to pull requests, though they have made repo changes within < 3 months See More

Top Pro

Easy to find Jasmine tutorials for most MV* frameworks,

whilst Mocha is still considered the new kid on the block. See More

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Has a very readable and user-friendly syntax

Code readability is an important factor, if the application development involves multiple teams; if the testing team is unable to read your test cases then they won't be able to test it. Jasmine resolves this issue by providing developers with an extremely simple and "human-friendly" syntax. See More

Top Pro

Behaviour Driven Development focused

If you prefer your test cases and application to be developed from the perspective of your stake holders, Jasmine is the framework for you. See More

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Allows both DOM-less as well as Asynchronous testing

If you have some test cases that do not involve testing of DOM elements or events, those are exactly the ones where you want to use Jasmine. It'll provide smooth, simple and easy DOM-less testing of those test cases. See More

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tape

Top Pro

Simple API

Very simple API that doesn't require globals, or monkey patching objects for assertions. See More

Top Con

No concurrency

Cannot run async test cases concurrently for faster test builds. See More

Top Pro

No global functions

Tape does not use global methods such as "it", "describe", since they are not considered best practice in JavaScript. See More

Top Pro

Built-in assert

This way you don't have to add more dependencies and external assertion libraries. See More

Top Pro

It follows the principles of TAP

TAP: Test Anything Protocol See More

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What are the best Node.js test frameworks?

3 Options Considered

Mocha

My Recommendation for Mocha

My Recommendation for Mocha

Supports Promises

Can be intimidating for beginners

Makes Asynchronous testing extremely easy

Runs in Node.js and the browser

Supports different assertion libraries

Custom full color test reporters

Write tests with Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Integrates really well with NodeJS

Supports programatically skipping tests

Easy to add support for Generators

Jasmine

My Recommendation for Jasmine

My Recommendation for Jasmine

Integrates very well with Ruby on Rails

Maintainers are not very responsive to pull requests

Easy to find Jasmine tutorials for most MV* frameworks,

Has a very readable and user-friendly syntax

Behaviour Driven Development focused

Allows both DOM-less as well as Asynchronous testing

tape

My Recommendation for tape

My Recommendation for tape

Simple API

No concurrency

No global functions

Built-in assert

It follows the principles of TAP

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