node-typescript-nightmare-mocha

This is a project to show how to run automated browser tests using the Nightmare framework.

Requirements

• nvm - Node Version Manager, POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
• typescript - TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Usage

nvm use
npm install
npm test

tsconfig.json

The tsconfig.json file customizes configures various behaviors of the TypeScript compiler:

• "target": "es5" - compile to ES5 (see docs)
• "module": "commonjs" - use CommonJS modules
• "outDir": "out" - put compiled JavaScript files in the out directory (see docs)
• "sourceMap": true - supports debugging (see docs)

.vscode/settings.json

settings.json configures VSCode to use the same TypeScript version as the project (see docs.

DefinitelyTyped

DefinitelyTyped is a repository of TypeScript type mappings for popular JavaScript packages. Search for your package using TypeSearch.

TypeScript Declaration Files

• Creating high-quality TypeScript Declaration Files
• Library Structures
• Writing Declaration Files for @types

Mocha.js

• json-stream reporter

Links

• TypeScript book
• Unit testing node applications with TypeScript — using mocha and chai
• HTMLLinkElement
• Change default timeout for mocha
• Changes to How We Manage DefinitelyTyped
• vo - Minimalist, yet complete control flow library.
• Generator: function*
• Node.js + Typescript + Nightmare
• Mocha.js