@handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-mocha

Dev Dependencies with Mocha/Chai/c8: @handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-mocha

This package provides recommended dev dependencies for projects using Mocha, Chai, and c8 as the test runner. It can be used to accelerate the scaffolding of TypeScript projects.

If you don't like mocha, try one of these instead:

• @handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-jest - Dev dependencies with Jest as the testing framework.
• @handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-common - Dev dependencies without a testing framework.

Getting Started

0. Create the project

If not yet, you can start a new project using npm init.

1. Add as dependency

Just add it as a dev dependency:

npm install -D @handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-mocha

2. Copy common configuration files

For new projects, you may want to copy these common configuration files to start with. Here's the command line for copying those files:

cp ./node_modules/@handy-common-utils/dev-dependencies-mocha/{tsconfig.json,eslint.config.cjs,.prettierignore,prettier.config.cjs,.mocharc.yml,.nycrc.yml} .

Feel free to modify them to suit your needs.

3. Update package.json

Scripts

If you are developing an NPM package, you may want to add these to your package.json:

"scripts": {
  "format:all": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown .",
  "pretest": "eslint .",
  "test": "c8 mocha",
  "compile": "shx rm -rf dist && tsc",
  "prepack": "npm run compile",
  "prepublish": "npm run compile",
  "preversion": "generate-api-docs-and-update-readme && git add README.md"
},

If you are developing a command line tool, you may want to add these instead:

"main": "dist/index.js",
"scripts": {
  "format:all": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown .",
  "pretest": "eslint .",
  "test": "c8 mocha",
  "compile": "shx rm -rf dist && tsc",
  "start": "npm run compile && node dist/index.js"
},

If you have command line scripts, you may want to use this line for prepare:

  "prepare": "npm run compile && shx chmod +x dist/bin/*.js",

Prettier in pre-commit hook

If you'd like to use Prettier in a pre-commit hook, you can add husky to the prepare script in your package.json.

Also, these need to be added to package.json:

  "lint-staged": {
    "**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown"
  }

And these two files need to be added to the .husky directory:

.gitignore:

-

pre-commit:

npx lint-staged

4. Start coding!

By default, your code goes to src/, test cases go to test/, and compiled .js files go to dist/. Feel free to change the configurations if this convention does not suit your needs.