CLI Usage

Usage: mocha-webpack [options] [<file|directory|glob> ...]

Options

  --async-only, -A               force all tests to take a callback (async) or return a promise
  --colors, -c                   force enabling of colors
  --interactive                  force interactive mode
  --quiet, -q                    does not display informational messages
  --growl, -G                    enable growl notification support
  --recursive                    include sub directories
  --reporter, -R                 specify the reporter to use
  --reporter-options, -O         reporter-specific options, --reporter-options <k=v,k2=v2,...>
  --bail, -b                     bail after first test failure
  --glob                         only test files matching <pattern> (only valid for directory entry)
  --grep, -g                     only run tests matching <pattern>
  --fgrep, -f                    only run tests containing <string>
  --invert, -i                   inverts --grep and --fgrep matches
  --require, -r                  require the given module
  --include                      include the given module into test bundle
  --slow, -s                     "slow" test threshold in milliseconds
  --timeout, -t                  set test-case timeout in milliseconds
  --ui, -u                       specify user-interface
  --watch, -w                    watch files for changes
  --check-leaks                  check for global variable leaks
  --full-trace                   display the full stack trace
  --inline                       display actual/expected differences inline within each string
  --exit                         require a clean shutdown of the event loop: mocha will not call process
  --retries                      set numbers of time to retry a failed test case
  --delay                        wait for async suite definition
  --webpack-config               path to webpack-config file
  --webpack-env                  environment passed to the webpack-config, when it is a function
  --opts                         path to webpack-mocha options file, Default cwd/mocha-webpack.opts

Examples

  mocha-webpack "src/**/*.test.js"
  mocha-webpack --webpack-config webpack.config-test.js

Default pattern when no arguments:
  "test/*.{ext}"              {ext} is placeholder for extensions in your webpack config via 'resolve.extensions'. Fallbacks to '.js'

Most useful options

--webpack-config

Allows you to use your own webpack configuration to define custom loaders and other webpack related stuff.

When the parameter --webpack-config is omitted, mocha-webpack tries to load a webpack-config file named webpack.config.js, but will not bail when it doesn't exist. It fails only for missing webpack config files when the config is explicitly given.

If you need to use a JavaScript preprocessor such as Babel or CoffeeScript for your webpack config file then give it a name that ends with corresponding extension and call it without it:

$ mocha-webpack --webpack-config webpack.config-test.js

webpack.config-test.babel.js - Babel example config

export default {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        loader: "babel-loader"
      }
    ]
  }
};

webpack.config-test.coffee - CoffeeScript example config

module.exports =
  module:
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.coffee$/
        loader: "coffee-loader"
      }
    ]

Instead of returning a webpack config, you can also export a function which returns the config when called. You should use this in conjunction with the --webpack-env option to make your config environment aware, for example --webpack-env test.

export default function (env) {
  return {
    devtool: env === "production" ? "source-map": "inline-cheap-module-source-map",
    target: env === "test" ? "node" : "web",
    module: {
      rules: [
        {
          test: /\.js$/,
          loader: "babel-loader"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
};

Please have a look at the webpack configuration chapter to get further instructions & tips.

--opts

mocha-webpack attempts to load a configuration file named mocha-webpack.opts in your working directory. It's basically the same like mocha.opts for mocha and appends common CLI options automatically to your commands.

--opts allows you to define a custom file path for this config file.

The lines in this file are combined with any command-line arguments. Command-line arguments take precedence.

Imagine you have the following mocha-webpack.opts file:

mocha-webpack.opts

--colors
--webpack-config webpack.config-test.js
src/**/*.test.js

and call mocha-webpack with

$ mocha-webpack --growl

then it's equivalent to

$ mocha-webpack --growl --colors --webpack-config webpack.config-test.js "src/**/*.test.js"

--glob, --recursive

When you use a directory as a test entry --glob and --recursive can help you to control the files to test.

• --glob affects only directory entries and allows you to specifiy a pattern (e.g. *.test.js) for the files that should be tested
• --recursive searches also in subdirectories for tests to run

--require, --include

--require is a known mocha option that lets you execute files before your tests will be required. It's useful for setup stuff like initializing jsdom.

--include does something similar, except that the files will be included into the webpack bundle. But like --require they will be executed before your tests.

--watch

Starts mocha-webpack in watch mode and compiles & run your tests automatically when a file change occur. Unlike mocha, mocha-webpack analyzes your dependency graph and run only those test files that were affected by this file change.