mocha: Cannot combine --delay and --watch and --require hook

Title says all: this command does not restart my tests when changing them:

mocha --recursive --watch --require setup.js --delay

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 23 (7 by maintainers)

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Reproduction scenario for Mocha JS issue 1987 Cannot combine --delay and --watch and --require hook https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/1987 — committed to Download/mocha-babel-watch by Download 8 years ago

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@Download I have no babel experience per se, but your repo problem would seem a little more basic than that. You never told Mocha to watch your JSX file. Try adding --watch-extensions jsx; Mocha only watches ‘js’ by default.

When run this way, Mocha will show you what is being watched…

$ DEBUG="mocha:watch" node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha --require babel-register --watch "test/**/*.spec.jsx"

plroebuck on Oct 26, 2018

Well I be darned!! This actually works! W00t w00t!!!

Wow I cannot believe I spend so many hours trying to get this to work and somehow completely missed this watch-extensions thing. Man this is so great! I have been avoiding mocha + babel in my smaller projects even though I like both because the pain of watch not working was killing all the joy. With this fix I can finally use babel+mocha everywhere!

@plroebuck Thanks man!!!

Download on Oct 26, 2018