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Mocha v6 adds Configuration File Support & Drops Node.js v4.x

by Christopher Hiller

The next major release of Mocha, v6.0.0, will be released "in the near future."   Since it contains significant changes to command-line flags and configuration, we're being cautious and plan on publishing one or more prerelease versions.

Any prerelease versions will be installable via npm install mocha@next.

Notably,

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mocha, testing, node.js
Dec 11, 2018

Optimizing Mocha's Builds with Travis CI's Build Stages

by Christopher Hiller

A little less than a year ago, Travis CI introduced a beta feature, Build Stages.
Could it be maintainers in my world (that world being “userland tooling and libraries for Node.js”) don’t even know Build Stages are a Thing? Despite the overwhelming popularity of Travis CI amongst OSS

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mocha, travis-ci, ci, tutorial
Apr 09, 2018

Mocha v4 Nears Release

by Christopher Hiller

Mocha v4.0.0 is nearing release. With this new version also comes the obligatory breaking changes, and I'll enumerate them below.

UPDATE (April 18, 2018): Mocha v4 was released on October 2, 2017.

Mocha Will No Longer Support Node.js Pre-v4.0.0

There are several reasons for this:

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node.js, mocha, web, testing
Sep 28, 2017

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"boneskull" is the alias of Christopher Hiller. This is his blog. Maintainer of Mocha, a JS testing framework. Dev Advocate in Node.js @ IBM. Shenanigans & opinions his own. Also a lizard person.

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