Is there a way to get Chai working with asynchronous Mocha tests?

Question

I\'m running some asynchronous tests in Mocha using the Browser Runner and I\'m trying to use Chai\'s expect style assertions:

window.expect = chai.expect;
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Answer 1

Here are my passing tests for ES6/ES2015 promises and ES7/ES2016 async/await. Hope this provides a nice updated answer for anyone researching this topic:

import { expect } from 'chai'

describe('Mocha', () => {
  it('works synchronously', () => {
    expect(true).to.equal(true)
  })

  it('works ansyncronously', done => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      expect(true).to.equal(true)
      done()
    }, 4)
  })

  it('throws errors synchronously', () => {
    return true
    throw new Error('it works')
  })

  it('throws errors ansyncronously', done => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      return done()
      done(new Error('it works'))
    }, 4)
  })

  it('uses promises', () => {
    var testPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      setTimeout(() => {
        resolve('Hello')
      }, 4)
    })

    testPromise.then(result => {
      expect(result).to.equal('Hello')
    }, reason => {
      throw new Error(reason)
    })
  })

  it('uses es7 async/await', async (done) => {
    const testPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      setTimeout(() => {
        resolve('Hello')
      }, 4)
    })

    try {
      const result = await testPromise
      expect(result).to.equal('Hello')
      done()
    } catch(err) {
      done(err)
    }
  })

  /*
  *  Higher-order function for use with async/await (last test)
  */
  const mochaAsync = fn => {
    return async (done) => {
      try {
        await fn()
        done()
      } catch (err) {
        done(err)
      }
    }
  }

  it('uses a higher order function wrap around async', mochaAsync(async () => {
    const testPromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      setTimeout(() => {
        resolve('Hello')
      }, 4)
    })

    expect(await testPromise).to.equal('Hello')
  }))
})