Running Mocha + Istanbul + Babel

Question

I\'m having some issues while running istanbul with mocha and the babel compiler..

all my tests are runnning just fine, but after all the tests done it shows me this

Answer 1

PS: I now recommend to use single jest instead of mocha/instanbul/nyc/chai/etc.

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Solution A: Using nyc and babel-plugin-istanbul

Setup (don't forget @next for nyc):

npm install --save-dev nyc babel-plugin-istanbul babel-register

Add an env to babel config:

{
  "env": {
    "nyc": { "plugins": ["istanbul"] }
  }
}

nyc config:

{
  "reporter"   : ["text", "text-summary", "lcov", "html"],
  "include"    : ["src/**/*.js"],
  "require"    : ["babel-register"],
  "sourceMap"  : false,
  "instrument" : false,
  "all"        : true
}

PS: include field needs to be specified in .nycrc of in package.json, if specified in command line, coverage will not works

Running the tests:

# 1. Build
NODE_ENV=nyc babel src --out-dir lib

# 2. Coverage
nyc mocha

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Solution B: No extra packages : Only the basic ones

Work has been done recently on istanbul (1.0.0-alpha.2) to support Babel generated code with sourcemaps (see #212 and this for an example).

There are 2 ways:

• A. Tests written against previously transpiled code
• B. Tests written against original code and transpiled all together in memory at runtime

B1. Tests that exports (previously) transpiled code

This is done in 2 steps: Firstly, build your source with babel (e.g. from ./src to ./out) and write your tests against transpiled source (export foo from "./out/foo";).

Then you will be able to run the tests using istanbul 1.0.0-alpha.2 :

istanbul cover _mocha -- ./test --compilers js:babel-register 

Now if you want code coverage to follow the original code you've written (not the transpiled one), make sure to build with babel source-maps options set to both :

babel ./src --out-dir ./out --source-maps both

PS: If needed you can also do :

istanbul cover _mocha -- ./test --compilers js:babel-register \
   --require babel-polyfill \
   --require should \
   --require sinon

B2. Tests that directly exports original code

In this case you write your tests against original source (export foo from "./src/foo";), and with no further step, you directly run istanbul 1.0.0-alpha.2 using babel-node against cli.js :

babel-node ./node_modules/istanbul/lib/cli.js cover _mocha -- ./test

PS: If needed you can also do :

babel-node ./node_modules/istanbul/lib/cli.js cover _mocha -- ./test
   --require babel-polyfill \
   --require should \
   --require sinon