Browser Support

[dareid]

As suggested by @BigstickCarpet - thanks. Presentation @ https://youtu.be/bhrg-7f2e8k?t=1800

[JamesMessinger]

@dareid - Thanks for opening this issue! Just curious - How did you find out about my talk?

For others who are viewing this issue, here are the relevant parts of the talk:

• Browser support is important
• Which HTTP test frameworks support browsers
• Demo of Chai-HTTP tests running in a browser
• Chai-HTTP's killer feature: browser testing

That last link is to my sample repo, which has a demo REST API and the same suite of tests written in four different test frameworks (Chakram, SuperTest, Chai-HTTP, Postman).

[JamesMessinger]

Also... a little back-story: I'm actually the one who added browser support to Chai-HTTP. It was pretty easy, actually. I just used Browserify, and made a few tweaks to the code to handle a few browser-specific differences. I'm sure the same will be true for Chakram.

[dareid]

Your talk triggered a google alert, was very interesting, thanks for considering Chakram :)
Thanks for the link to your Chai-HTTP pull req, I am sure it will be very similar.

[JamesMessinger]

👍 Cool, glad to help. Here's a subsequent PR that improved the browser build for Chai-HTTP

[naivefun]

any update for browser support? :)

[dareid]

It has somewhat stalled tbh. There is a very rough implementation available but there are quite a few problems, mainly with plugins. I have raised this issue chaijs/chai-as-promised#145 which needs fixing before full plugin support can be achieved.

In addition, the JS produced is too large (for my liking) and the tests I have configured at the moment are struggling in the browser which needs exploring more.

So lots more to do. Any help would be appreciated.

[keyjm]

Just wondering if there is any update on this?