Why do I see “define not defined” when running a Mocha test with RequireJS?

Question

I am trying to understand how to develop stand-alone Javascript code. I want to write Javscript code with tests and modules, running from the command line. So I have insta

Answer 1

The Mocha documentation is lacking on how to set this stuff up, and it's perplexing to figure out because of all the magic tricks it does under the hood.

I found the keys to getting browser files using require.js to work in Mocha under Node: Mocha has to have the files added to its suites with addFile:

mocha.addFile('lib/tests/Main_spec_node');

And second, use beforeEach with the optional callback to load your modules asynchronously:

describe('Testing "Other"', function(done){
    var Other;
    beforeEach(function(done){
        requirejs(['lib/Other'], function(_File){
            Other = _File;
            done(); // #1 Other Suite will run after this is called
        });
    });

    describe('#1 Other Suite:', function(){
        it('Other.test', function(){
            chai.expect(Other.test).to.equal(true);
        });
    });
});

I created a bootstrap for how to get this all working: https://github.com/clubajax/mocha-bootstrap