How to specify test directory for mocha?

Question

Mocha tries to find test files under test by default, how do I specify another dir, e.g. server-test?

Answer 1

Edit : This option is deprecated : https://mochajs.org/#mochaopts

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If you want to do it by still just running mocha on the command line, but wanted to run the tests in a folder ./server-tests instead of ./test, create a file at ./test/mocha.opts with just this in the file:

server-tests

If you wanted to run everything in that folder and subdirectories, put this into test/mocha.opts

server-tests
--recursive

mocha.opts are the arguments passed in via the command line, so making the first line just the directory you want to change the tests too will redirect from ./test/