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tap-producing test harness for node and browsers

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2014-02-27 · latest 2021-12-17

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  1. …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 integration) testing, but I…
    comment by andrew_ · 2021-12-17 · in Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
  2. …symbols, etc. Interesting. In the Node.js ecosystem there are loads of different interfaces ( https://github.com/substack/tape/#pretty-reporters ), but my favorite is node-tap (which also comes with coverage tests and such).
    comment by ChristianBundy · 2020-06-11 · in Test Anything Protocol
  3. …write 'simple' tests; the likes of Mocha give you too much fluff, and use globals (i.e. magic). [0] https://github.com/substack/tape
    comment by alexdrans · 2017-04-28 · in Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about testing/TDD?
  4. …https://yarnpkg.com/ [7] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ [8] https://github.com/cortesi/modd [9] https://github.com/substack/tape [10] https://github.com/tapjs/node-tap [11] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/tree/rewrite/ospec [12]…
    comment by johncoltrane · 2016-12-26 · in Ask HN: What languages and technologies/tools are you using right now?
  5. In this case, I would argue it is not better. Many JS devs have moved onto simpler, greener pastures. https://github.com/substack/tape is what I prefer. Small little library. Its API has everything I need and nothing I don't. Those other…
    comment by l1ambda · 2016-10-11 · in Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
  6. …are also tools being created (though not really popular I think) like http://www.taptinder.org/ and https://github.com/substack/tape .
    comment by kinow · 2016-06-16 · in Test Anything Protocol specification (2006)
  7. …tests are run, effectively plugging in JIT-like support for your tests. (End shameless plug.) [1]: https://github.com/substack/tape [2]: https://github.com/substack/tape#preloading-modules
    comment by mstade · 2016-01-23 · in ES6 Cheatsheet
  8. …[1] http://browserify.org/ [2] http://learnboost.github.io/stylus/ [3] http://gulpjs.com/ [4] https://github.com/substack/tape [5] https://ci.testling.com/ [6] https://github.com/bpierre/jspage [7] https://cloudup.com/ [8] http://scri.ch/
    comment by bpierre · 2014-07-27 · in Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-end workflow?
  9. …I'm partial to substack's tape module[1][2] to output tap. Works great with browserify too. [1] https://github.com/substack/tape [2] http://www.catonmat.net/blog/writing-javascript-tests-with-t...
    comment by 2mur · 2014-02-27 · in Testing at Airbnb