Mocha with nodejs

Question

I am trying to run some Mocha tests within my Node.js app.

Here is my folder structure:

compute/ folder1/ app/ tests/ mytest.js folder2/ app/ tests/ mytest2.js

I got a package.json in both with mocha installed.

When I try to start a test with yarn test, I got an error

Warning: Could not find any test files matching pattern: test

No test files found

How can I manage to run it?

Because my folders' names are "tests" and not "test" as in the default and they are not at source.

dereli · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-15 13:22:07Z

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When you don't use the default folders, you need to specify them as arguments. An example follows:

mocha "folder{1,2}/**/tests/*.js"

If you want to run with only npm test/yarn test, then you need to update your package.json file like following:

 "scripts": { "test": "mocha \"folder{1,2}/**/tests/*.js\"", },

answered Feb 15, 2018 at 13:22

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Ok and if I change the folder name by "test", mocha will run all my tests into subdirectories ?

I updated my folders to "test" and in package.json got "test" : "mocha" but it is still not working

can you update your question with the related lines from package.json.

Oh ok I got it, it works, I did bad with the link when I tried to run the command "mocha folder1/..."