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Browser Unit Testing with Backbone Mocha Chai and RequireJS
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index.html
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>Backbone Tests</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="libs/mocha.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mocha"></div>
<script data-main="SpecRunner.js" src="/app/libs/require.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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model-tests.js
define(function(require) {
var models = require('models');
describe('Models', function() {
describe('Sample Model', function() {
it('should default "urlRoot" property to "/api/samples"', function() {
var sample = new models.Sample();
sample.urlRoot.should.equal('/api/samples');
});
});
});
});
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models.js
define(function(require) {
var Backbone = require('backbone');
var models = {};
models.Sample = Backbone.Model.extend({
urlRoot: '/api/samples'
});
return models;
});
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SpecRunner.js
require.config({
baseUrl: '/backbone-tests/',
paths: {
'jquery' : '/app/libs/jquery',
'underscore' : '/app/libs/underscore',
'backbone' : '/app/libs/backbone',
'mocha' : 'libs/mocha',
'chai' : 'libs/chai',
'chai-jquery' : 'libs/chai-jquery',
'models' : '/app/models'
},
shim: {
'chai-jquery': ['jquery', 'chai']
},
urlArgs: 'bust=' + (new Date()).getTime()
});
define(function(require) {
var chai = require('chai');
var mocha = require('mocha');
require('jquery');
require('chai-jquery');
// Chai
var should = chai.should();
chai.use(chaiJquery);
mocha.setup('bdd');
require([
'specs/model-tests.js',
], function(require) {
mocha.run();
});
});
@amitrai99
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Great gist, thanks for this.
Is there a way to run a single test using this method?

@maryjanebarger
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Can someone post their Gruntfile.js or gulpfile.js used to run this code? Thanks.

@bebnev-pro
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Thank you very much, man. It's really help me to add unit testing in my test-app based on old backbone... Guys, get attention that baseUrl is very important for all your future imports and paths. It will be based on your .html run-test file in your file system. Other thing - very great and really helpfull.

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