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

Timers during tests and async sounds pretty rough. There is a way to do this with a promise based approach.

const sendFormResp = async (obj) => {
    const result = await web.chat.postMessage({
        text: 'Hello world!',
    });
   return result
}

This async function uses a Web client (in this case it is Slacks SDK). The SDK takes care of the asynchronous nature of the API call and returns a payload. We can then test the payload within chai by running expect against the object returned in the async promise.

describe("Slack Logic For Working Demo Environment", function (done) {
    it("Should return an object", () => {
        return sdkLogic.sendFormResp(testModels.workingModel).then(res => {
            expect(res).to.be.a("Object");
        })
    })
});