broth

broth

Should only be used in when neither testling nor smokestack meet your needs.

Usage

Look, if you really insist then the following is a brief intro on how to use broth.

Firstly, it follows the piping syntax that smokestack uses, but makes no attempt to launch chrome or firefox or do anything fancy like that. It just starts the specified <launcher> process and passes it the url to launch as the first and only argument:

browserify test/blah.js | broth <launcher>

If you do have a test server that you want to run as part of your test suite, ensure that it exists at test/server.js and looks something like this:

module.exports = function() {
  return require('http').createServer();
};

If such a file exists, then broth will run the server, start it listening on a random port and use bouncy to route any unknown requests to it.

Why?

Good question. I was quite happy with testling but was starting to notice unusual and unpredictable failures, and while smokestack is going to be great I have very particular requirements and didn't feel that smokestack should be bent to suit my requirements.

License(s)

ISC

Copyright (c) 2015, Damon Oehlman [e-mail]

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