Change default timeout for mocha

Question

If we have a unit test file my-spec.js and running with mocha:

mocha my-spec.js

The default timeout will be 2000 ms. It can be overwritten

Answer 1

Adding this for completeness. If you (like me) use a script in your package.json file, just add the --timeout option to mocha:

"scripts": {
  "test": "mocha 'test/**/*.js' --timeout 10000",
  "test-debug": "mocha --debug 'test/**/*.js' --timeout 10000"
},

Then you can run npm run test to run your test suite with the timeout set to 10,000 milliseconds.