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

As @jeff-dickey suggested, in the root of your project, make a folder called test. In that folder, make a file called mocha.opts. Now where I try to improve on Jeff's answer, what worked for me was instead of specifying the name of just one test folder, I specified a pattern to find all tests to run in my project by adding this line:

*/tests/*.js --recursive in mocha.opts

If you instead want to specify the exact folders to look for tests in, I did something like this:

shared/tests/*.js --recursive
server/tests/graph/*.js --recursive

I hope this helps anyone who needed more than what the other answers provide