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@tapjs/asserts
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Tap plugin that adds a heaping pile of assertion methods. Pretty much all of the "test" methods other than `t.pass`, `t.fail`, and [snapshot methods](https://tapjs.github.io/tapjs/modules/_tapjs_snapshot.html) come from this plugin.
@tapjs/assertsTap plugin that adds a heaping pile of assertion methods. Pretty
much all of the "test" methods other than t.pass, t.fail, and
snapshot
methods
come from this plugin.
This plugin is installed with tap by default. If you had
previously removed it, you can tap plugin add @tapjs/asserts to
bring it back.
compareOptionsThis plugin adds the compareOptions option to the set of fields
that can be passed to child tests. You can also set
t.compareOptions after the fact.
compareOptions lets you pass options to
tcompare
to specify the formatting style, diff context lines, and so on.
It can contain the following fields:
sort - boolean, sort items alphabetically by key.bufferChunkSize - number of bytes to show on each line when
printing buffers, default 32includeEnumerable - boolean, include any and all enumerable
properties, including those inherited on the prototype chain.
By default, only own properties are shown.includeGetters - boolean, include getter properties.diffContext - how many lines of context to print around
changes in diffs, default 10. Note that the test reporter
might use more or less than this value when displaying pretty
colored diffs.All of the assertion methods are documented on the Assertions
class.
When this plugin is loaded, these are all present on Test
objects.
FAQs
Tap plugin that adds a heaping pile of assertion methods. Pretty much all of the "test" methods other than `t.pass`, `t.fail`, and [snapshot methods](https://tapjs.github.io/tapjs/modules/_tapjs_snapshot.html) come from this plugin.
The npm package @tapjs/asserts receives a total of 157,289 weekly downloads. As such, @tapjs/asserts popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @tapjs/asserts demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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