Is mocha-webpack still maintained?

[larixer]

@zinserjan Thank you for the great work on a great tool!

Let me kindly ask a straight question, is mocha-webpack still maintained?

It looks strange that Pull Requests from contributors starting from end of March do not get any reaction from you and that many greenkeeper PR's and issues hang around, no new commits being pushed... It looks like as if project was abandoned from some reason.

Could you shed some light for your users?

Many thanks!

[alecf]

It looks like @zinserjan hasn't been active on github (or anywhere else?) since early may 2018... I hope they are ok!

we've been using the 2.0.0-beta.0 version and it works reasonably well, but it would be great to get a release out on NPM. At what point does someone request to take this over on NPM?

[larixer]

@alecf Thanks for reply. I hope @zinserjan are well too!

Yes, 2.0.0-beta.0 works for now for us too. However things change in JS very fast, Webpack 2, 3, 4 had breaking changes and were released in a relatively short time frame. So, if there will be no reply from @zinserjan for a while and the last released version of mocha-webpack becomes outdated, I think maybe we should fork and publish mocha-webpack2 on npm?

[darrynten]

I'd vote to call it mocha-webpack-4

[notyoyoma]

Hey guys, Webpack 4 has been out since March, and I need to get this project working again. Has anyone forked this, and updated for Webpack 4?

@zinserjan If you still get these notifications, would you consider moving mocha-webpack over to the webpack-contrib repo? (similar to karma-webpack)

[larixer]

@notyoyoma The latest version 2.0.0-beta.0 of mocha-webpack works for Webpack 4, no need to fork to get working version.

[notyoyoma]

@Vlasenko I'm already using 2.0.0-beta.0 but debugging is broken probably due to Webpack 4.

[larixer]

@notyoyoma It doesn't mean though that the project is not working for Webpack 4. And it doesn't mean that debugging has ever worked the way you want it to.

[notyoyoma]

@Vlasenko I will look again, and try to get the debugger working as described here, but I have already spent ~20hrs on this problem over several weeks, and am fairly certain the problem lies with mocha-webpack.

Regardless, there still has been no response or activity from zinserjan in the last month. Does anyone know if he has a twitter or other social media presence? I've looked but haven't found anything. If he doesn't return, we may need to fork the project to continue development.

[ViggoV]

I'd be thrilled if someone with the nescessary expertise would resurrect this project. I've been experimenting with 2.0.0-beta.0 with some success but also some hacking and tweaking that might undermine the integrity of the tests. Also it's a question of time before Webpack bumps again.

[darrynten]

A dependency in 2.0.0-beta.0 has known vulnerabilities.

DepShield reports that this application's usage of lodash.debounce:4.0.8 results in the following vulnerability(s):

(CVSS 7.4) CWE-471: Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID)

lodash.debounce:4.0.8 is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency:

• mocha-webpack:2.0.0-beta.0
        └─ chokidar:2.0.4
              └─ lodash.debounce:4.0.8

See #297

[larixer]

@darrynten Yeah, looks like we are one step closer to the need of forking this repo and maintaining the fork....

[larixer]

Hey everyone! I have created the fork of this repository named mochapack:
https://github.com/sysgears/mochapack

I and my team is going to maintain it, until we see any activity from original author. Nothing too heavy - we will do security updates mostly and accept pull requests.

The first version is published into npm mochapack@1.0.0, it has the source code of latest released mocha-webpack version, renamings and update of dev dependency node-sass to enable builds of mochapack on Node 10.x versions.

[EmperorArthur]

Thank you so much! I can confirm mochapack is a drop in replacement for mocha-webpack!* @larixer you may want to try to contact GitHub or NPM about this being abandoned, so a note can be added to the front page pointing to the replacement. It took me two solid days of searching for a fix before discovering this issue and mochapack. At the least, you may consider watching this repo and responding to all issues with your new fork.

• With the exception of this issue: error while testing vue with mochapack laravel-mix/laravel-mix#2638