With my last few blog posts, I spent time talking about the importance of testing with software development, and I gave an intro to writing tests with Rails. For this post, I’m going to talk about how to write tests in one of the foremost JavaScript testing frameworks.

With plain old vanilla JavaScript, not using any frameworks like React or Angular, there are a variety of testing frameworks you can choose from, but I am going to talk about Mocha. The reason I chose Mocha is that the syntax is similar to the tests I was writing with Rails, and it is the framework my Bootcamp used for writing tests, so it feels familiar to me. It also has very good documentation with clear examples and explanations, and it has been around for a long time so they’ve had a chance to iron out all the bugs, and there are a lot examples of it being used.

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