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Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

22 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 9 stories, 13 comments · first 2015-08-28 · latest 2026-08-18

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  1. …not only finds order-dependent issues, but also race condition and other timing related issues. https://github.com/avajs/ava
    comment by sholladay · 2026-08-18 · in Composable Tests
  2. …muddy. In contrast to that, other test runners like AVA have a clear description what happens when: https://github.com/avajs/ava/blob/main/docs/01-writing-tests...
    comment by Tade0 · 2023-10-09 · in Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – The barrel file debacle
  3. You might want to give ava a spin: https://github.com/avajs/ava/ It has a TAP reporter, but more importantly, as opposed to the more popular solutions, like Jest, the way it achieves parallelism is explained in the docs and won't change…
    comment by Tade0 · 2023-05-21 · in Ask HN: What's your favorite software testing framework and why?
  4. …very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set. [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava [2] https://github.com/substack/tape [3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu Jest is great for front-end (or full stack…
    comment by andrew_ · 2021-12-17 · in Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
  5. I know a fella working on a Deno port of Ava ( https://github.com/avajs/ava ). When that and Koa are ported or compatible, I'll be giving Deno a legitimate go.
    comment by andrew_ · 2021-05-12 · in Deno 1.10 Release Notes
  6. …because it did a few things better than Jest. But ended up switching away because of this issue: https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/2385 Basically, if an assertion fails in the middle of an individual test, most test runners stop…
    comment by cakoose · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
  7. …using the existing build output, but I ran into another issue and had to switch back to Jest: https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/2385 )
    comment by cakoose · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
  8. Ava ( https://github.com/avajs/ava ) gets too little love from the blogging machinery. It's a breeze to use with TS, faster than Jest (YMMV of course), and I love the snapshot output over any other snapshot producing unit test tool. Use…
    comment by andrew_ · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
  9. …for coverage. It only works in node so I have to use JSDOM to mimic the browser environment. 1: https://github.com/avajs/ava 2: https://github.com/bcoe/c8
    comment by runarberg · 2020-06-21 · in A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
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    Avajs: Futuristic Test Runner
    story by trw55 · 2018-01-22 · 0 comments
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    AVA: Futuristic JavaScript test runner
    story by lobo_tuerto · 2017-07-14 · 0 comments
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    AVA 0.18
    story by sotojuan · 2017-02-05 · 0 comments
  13. …Babel built in with the AVA[1] test runner and I can confirm `babel-require` is our bottleneck. [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava
    comment by sotojuan · 2016-08-02 · in Huge no. of files for Angular 2
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    Futuristic JavaScript test runner
    story by legohorizons · 2016-07-20 · 0 comments
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    AVA 0.15 – Futuristic test runner
    story by sotojuan · 2016-05-25 · 1 comment
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    Ava: A refined, futuristic test runner
    story by dc2 · 2016-02-25 · 12 comments
  17. …author here. Just thought I'd mention that we are working on AVA and tape support in wallaby: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/141
    comment by wallabyjs · 2015-11-26 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner
  18. …so you only have to run the tests that was affected by code changes since the last run. See https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/115 for more. We're happy to receive issues if there's anything else that bothers you. We also have a…
    comment by mofle · 2015-11-26 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner
  19. There is an open issue regarding this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/115 In the meantime, there's Wallaby: http://wallabyjs.com/
    comment by bookerio · 2015-11-25 · in Ava – Asynchronous test runner
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    Ava – Asynchronous test runner
    story by tilt · 2015-11-25 · 11 comments
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    Futuristic test runner
    story by mofle · 2015-11-04 · 0 comments
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    Ava – Simple concurrent test runner
    story by sorhussindre · 2015-08-28 · 12 comments