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Temporarily overrides the command line arguments. This is useful for testing.
Temporarily overrides the command line arguments. This is useful for testing.
# npm
$ npm install mock-argv
# Yarn
$ yarn add mock-argv
const mockArgv = require('mock-argv')
test('works', async () => {
mockArgv(['foo', 'bar'], () => {
//> process.argv = [
//> 'path-to-node',
//> 'path-to-current-script',
//> 'foo',
//> 'bar',
//> ]
})
//> process.argv = ['path-to-node', 'path-to-current-script', '...other-params']
// Also works for async functions
})
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Temporarily overrides the command line arguments. This is useful for testing.
We found that mock-argv demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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