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uvu is an extremely fast and lightweight test runner for Node.js and the browser

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2020-07-13 · latest 2025-09-17

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  1. You usually can. You just gotta be a bit adventurous. https://github.com/lukeed/uvu is a testing library with almost no dependency. https://github.com/biomejs/biome is a linter written in Rust which in theory has a smaller attack surface.…
    comment by hu3 · 2025-09-17 · in Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
  2. …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 integration) testing, but I feel it's specialized for that…
    comment by andrew_ · 2021-12-17 · in Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
  3. There is uvu https://github.com/lukeed/uvu which has runtime performance as the number one goal. Maybe that is something for you.
    comment by mhagemeister · 2021-05-10 · in Folio: A customizable test framework to build your own test frameworks
  4. …of dependencies to be able to run some tests. Not sure if uvu is any good for Typescript though. 1: https://github.com/lukeed/uvu
    comment by tobr · 2021-04-21 · in Starting a TypeScript Project in 2021
  5. …snoop - Easy breezy test spies fo sheezy. Recommend to use with the absolutely wonderful uvu - https://github.com/lukeed/uvu . See: https://twitter.com/lukeed05/status/1283378348970762240
    comment by parmesh · 2020-07-16 · in Snoop – a tiny JavaScript library for test spies
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    An extremely fast and lightweight test runner for Node and the browser
    story by jerodsanto · 2020-07-13 · 0 comments