Support for Tape/Tap based test cases
How would I run test cases that I created using the Tape testing framework?
For Mocha, I would open Run/Debug Configurations dialog --> Press + sign and add "Mocha" to run them... wondering what is the alternative for Tape?
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Currently WebStorm provides no support for this framework. If you miss it, please vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-20916. For now, you can use Node.js Run configuration to execute Tape tests. Or, you can try developing a plugin for Tape support: see http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/ for basic documentation on plugin development. Mocha runner is not fully open source, but its JavaScript part is open source (https://github.com/JetBrains/mocha-intellij). Also, there is an open source plugin for Karma https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/tree/master/js-karma.
Hi!
TAP is a well-specified protocol with lots of open-source implementations, e.g. http://tap4j.org
Regarding plugin development, the only hard part here is to know IntelliJ internals. I believe that some people see that hard part as an easy part. I would definitely prefer them to do the job.
(I wrote tape-dom)
we have a feature request for Tape support, please vote for it: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-20916
It'd be great if intellij supported it, as many tests can output tap format.
To debug your tape tests in any JetBrains IDE (WebStorm, IDEA, etc.) you can use this instruction:
https://medium.com/@vladmystetskyi/how-to-debug-tape-tests-in-jetbrains-ide-webstorm-idea-etc-1979aa99c490
As this is one of the first results in Google, here my 2021 comment for running tape over TypeScript-Testcases:
Add ts-node to your devDependencies (in package.json) and npm install.
Then, you can use -r ts-node/register to use it in the node.js runner.
Depending on your project setup you might want to add some environment variables to configure ts-node:
TS_NODE_COMPILER_OPTIONS={"module":"UMD"};TS_NODE_LOG_ERROR=1Third, you can insert your TypeScript as "JavaScript file": tests/xyz.ts
WEB-20916 would be nice, though, for having an auto-discover (including several test case files) and nicer output. It seems, one cannot pipe the above stdout through a prettifier.