Testing server-side/client-side coffeescript code

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What do you use to test CofeeScript in the browser and in the server (node.js)?

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Wyatt Anderson · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23 14:07:42Z

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I use QUnit to test my CoffeeScript code in both a browser and via commandline; you can use node-qunit to test on the server. There are other solutions out there, but QUnit fits my needs pretty well and can be quite elegantly utilized from CoffeeScript:

module 'MyModule'

test 'MyModule.someFunction', ->
    ok someValue
    strictEqual anotherValue, 323

QUnit, additionally, has support for asynchronous tests, which makes it suitable not only for testing AJAX in the browser but also for testing various asynchronous fixtures in node.js like I/O.

answered Aug 23, 2011 at 14:07

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Trevor Burnham Over a year ago

+1. QUnit is almost certainly the most popular JS testing framework out there, thanks to its association with jQuery (which it does not depend on). It's simple, robust, and feature-rich enough for nearly every project.

Peter Lyons · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-24 14:00:42Z

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I use jasmine in both the browser and in node.js (via jasmine-node). I also like the jasmine-jquery plugin. Jasmine has some async support built it as well. The jasmine syntax is very nice in CoffeeScript whereas its a little verbose in javascript with so many nested functions.

answered Aug 24, 2011 at 14:00

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