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Writing and running basic tests

Writing and running basic tests - JavaScript Tutorial

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Writing and running basic tests

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- So now that we've learned a little bit more about unit tests, it's time to write and run our first unit test using Mocha and Chai. The first thing we're going to do is set up a new directory, we'll be writing our code. So go into whatever parent directory you'd like and create a new folder and call it, tdd-es6, or whatever else you want. And once we're in this directory, we're going to initialize a new npm project and to do that, open up a terminal and make sure you're inside this tdd-es6 folder that we just created, and run npm init -y and hit enter. And once that run successfully, it's time to install the Mocha and Chai libraries we'll be using for testing. To do that, type npm install - -save-dev mocha chai, hit enter. That'll run for a little bit and after it's done, let's create a directory called, source. And inside this directory, we're going to create two files. The first one is going to be called…

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