Generate mocha test files.

generate-mocha

Table of Contents

• Quickstart
• Files trees
• What is "Generate"?
• Getting started
  • Install
  • Usage
  • Help
• About
  • Related projects
  • Community
  • Contributing
  • Running tests
  • Release history
  • Author
  • License

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Quickstart

Install

Install generate and generate-mocha:

$ npm install --global generate generate-mocha

Generate a test.js file

Initiate a prompt to generate a test.js file in the current working directory:

$ gen mocha
$ gen mocha --dest ./foo

Files trees

The following files trees are automatically generated by a task in verbfile.js.

• generated files: trees representing the actual generated "dest" files for each task
• source files: trees representing the source files and templates used by each task

(See Generate's customization docs to learn how to override individual templates.)

Generated files

Files generated by each task (e.g. dest files). See the Generate customization docs to learn how to override individual templates.

Note that diffs are base on comparisons against the files generated by the default task. Additionally, some tasks generate the same files, but with different contents (for example, the contents of index.js differs based on the task).

default

Files generated by the default task:

 .
 └── test.js

base

Files generated by the base task:

 .
 └── test.js

generator

Files generated by the generator task:

 .
+└─┬ test
   ├── test.js
+  └── plugin.js

updater

Files generated by the updater task:

 .
+└─┬ test
   ├── test.js
+  └── plugin.js

Source files

The following trees represent the source files or templates that are used by each task. You'll see that most of the tasks use at least one "micro-generator" to generate a specific file.

default

Source files and/or libraries used by the default task:

 .
 └─┬ templates
   ├── base.js
   └── test.js

base

Source files and/or libraries used by the base task:

 .
 └─┬ templates
   └── base.js

generator

Source files and/or libraries used by the generator task:

 .
 └─┬ scaffolds
   └─┬ generator
     └─┬ templates
       ├── plugin.js
       └── test.js

updater

Source files and/or libraries used by the updater task:

 .
 └─┬ scaffolds
   └─┬ updater
     └─┬ templates
       ├── plugin.js
       └── test.js

What is "Generate"?

Generate is a command line tool and developer framework for scaffolding out new GitHub projects using generators and tasks.

Answers to prompts and the user's environment can be used to determine the templates, directories, files and contents to build. Support for gulp, base and assemble plugins, and much more.

For more information:

• Visit the generate project
• Visit the generate documentation
• Find generators on npm (help us author generators)

Getting started

Install

Installing the CLI

To run the mocha generator from the command line, you'll need to install Generate globally first. You can do that now with the following command:

$ npm install --global generate

This adds the gen command to your system path, allowing it to be run from any directory.

Install generate-mocha

Install this module with the following command:

$ npm install --global generate-mocha

Usage

Run this generator's default task with the following command:

$ gen mocha

What you should see in the terminal

If completed successfully, you should see both starting and finished events in the terminal, like the following:

[00:44:21] starting ...
...
[00:44:22] finished ✔

If you do not see one or both of those events, please let us know about it.

Help

To see a general help menu and available commands for Generate's CLI, run:

$ gen help

Tasks

All available tasks.

default

Alias for the test task. Allows the generator to be run with the following command:

Example

$ gen mocha

base

Generate a test.js file with unit tests for a base project.

Example

$ gen mocha:base

gulp

Generate a test.js file with unit tests for a gulp plugin project.

Example

$ gen mocha:gulp

generator

Generate unit tests for a generate generator. Creates:

• test.js
• plugin.js

Example

$ gen mocha:gen
# aliased as
$ gen mocha:generator

updater

Generate unit tests for an update "updater". Creates:

• test.js
• plugin.js

Example

$ gen mocha:updater

Visit Generate's documentation for tasks.

About

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Community

Are you using Generate in your project? Have you published a generator and want to share your project with the world?

Here are some suggestions!

• If you get like Generate and want to tweet about it, please feel free to mention @generatejs or use the #generatejs hashtag
• Show your love by starring Generate and generate-mocha
• Get implementation help on StackOverflow (please use the generatejs tag in questions)
• Gitter Discuss Generate with us on Gitter
• If you publish an generator, thank you! To make your project as discoverable as possible, please add the keyword generategenerator to package.json.

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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