Test for expected failure in Mocha

Question

Using Mocha, I am attempting to test whether a constructor throws an error. I haven\'t been able to do this using the expect syntax, so I\'d like to do the following:

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Answer 1

2017 answer if you need to do this with async code: using await and not needing any other libraries.

it('Returns a correct error response when making a broken order', async function(){
  this.timeout(5 * 1000);
  var badOrder = {}
  try {
    var result = await foo.newOrder(badOrder)
    // The line will only be hit if no error is thrown above!
    throw new Error(`Expected an error and didn't get one!`)
  } catch(err) {
    var expected = `Missing required field`
    assert.equal(err.message, expected)
  }
});

Note the poster was only doing sync code, but I expect a lot of people using async were led here by the question title!