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JavaScript JavaScript Unit Testing Next Steps Changing Mocha’s Reporter

Error: "test": "mocha --reporter nyan"

I'm receiving this: Error: Cannot find module './options'

Terminal:

Zachs-MacBook-Pro:start zfreitag34$ npm test

> workspace@1.0.0 test /Users/zfreitag34/Desktop/Treehouse/Unit-Testing/4-next-steps/1-changing-mochas-reporter/star
t
> mocha --reporter nyan
module.js:557
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module './options'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:555:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:482:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:604:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/zfreitag34/Desktop/Treehouse/Unit-Testing/4-next-steps/1-changing-mochas-reporter/
start/node_modules/.bin/mocha:11:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:660:30)    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:671:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:573:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:513:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:505:3)
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

package.json

{
  "name": "workspace",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "directories": {
    "test": "test"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "chai": "^3.5.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "mocha": "^2.4.5"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "mocha --reporter nyan"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

main_test.js

var expect = require('chai').expect;

// Test suite
describe('Mocha', function () {
  //Test spec / unit test
  it('should run our tests using npm', function () {
    expect(true).to.be.ok;
  });
});

After following the video I'm confused with this error.

Best answer gets points =)

Cheers!

2 Answers

Chris Underwood
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Chris Underwood
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 19,916 Points

Possible fixes for you here.

https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/2582

I also want to add for anyone that wants to try out the two word titles styles like landing strip, you just use the first name such as landing and it will work.

Best,

Chris

I had similar issue where running mocha from the command line was fine (because I installed with -g option to make it global) but didn't work when using npm test. So the problem seems to be the path to mocha is not working for some

"scripts": { "test": "./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha test" },