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RE: https://lascapi.fr/blog/2026/03/02/create-a-local-first-wiki-an-html-editor-designed-for-personal-knowledge-management/

Hi! A big #question for #webdev

// Context: a #Tauri application written in plain #JavaScript.

I used the #DOMParser to read an HTML file and display it as #Markdown.
For unit testing, I use #MochaJs, and I wanted to run the tests in the command line interface (CLI) with #nodejs.
However, Node.js does not have the DOMParser library. :/

I then used jsdom to develop the function in a behaviour-driven development style, but this cannot be run in a browser.

I now realise that trying to test this functionality in this way is not a good idea.

What can I use instead? ??

You're welcome to #boost or ask for clarifications. :)

News about adopting posted in the #mochajs @opencollective: https://opencollective.com/mochajs/updates/adopting-collective-funds-guidelines-0-1

PR for adding it to #mochajs is here: https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/pull/5199

Published a first draft of Collective Funds Guidelines: https://github.com/collective-funds/guidelines

First user will be Mocha and its inspired by prior art of awesome fellow @openjsf projects @eslint and WebdriverIO 🙏

Thanks to (in no special order) @JoshuaKGoldberg, @mcollina, @west, @ulisesgascon, @uzlopak, @bcomnes for review, feedback and suggestions that helped shape this 🙏

#opensource #OpenSourceFunding #opencollective #mochajs

Did my first #npmRelease of #MochaJS. Version 10.4.0 is now available, including some features and some fixes: https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/releases/tag/v10.4.0

Great collaboration with @JoshuaKGoldberg and @uzlopak as well as with the individual contributors.

Next up I hope to pick up the pace of my contributions on this project, but first I have some standard linting to enhance :BlobhajHeart:

#16: #mochajs - "A feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser, making asynchronous testing simple."

@TheRealPomax I’m still a fan of #MochaJS with #Chai assertions. Jest requires to much to get it to work with modern #JavaScript development practices, it doesn’t even work well with #TypeScript and #ESModules.

I would appreciate any help on this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76782305/mochajs-test-keep-running-when-using-async-await

#mochajs #nodejs #express #async

(if you don't call your API/DB sync way, #mochajs will not wait till the request is finished, meaning test results will not be stored.)
disclaimer: maybe it still works on different envs than darwin (macs) but not based on what I was reading... 🤷‍♂️

Now, why is there still a use case for needing sync code execution (instead of async)? Well, many reasons, like writing a custom #mochajs runner (@[email protected] uses mocha as well) where you need to send results to any database a the end of the test run - basic use case.