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Jan Maas
2,282 PointsWhen following along the JavaScript Unit Testing I cannot run any "mocha" commands
I am following the tutorial on JavaScript Unit Testing along on my own mac. The command npm-test runs my test suites fine. But as soon as I try any command with "mocha", like: mocha -- watch ./test/game_test.js .game_logic/game_instance.js I get an error stating: mocha: command not found.
I believe it has something to do with my mocha install locally, but really I am not experienced enough to understand what is wrong. I can't find much help that I can understand on google on the matter... Any help would be appreciated :) thanks J
3 Answers
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 PointsDid you run this global install or read the docs?
npm install -g mocha
Usually when a program: command not found error happens, the program isn't installed.
Rich Donnellan
Treehouse Moderator 27,671 PointsUpdate: If you're running npm version >=5, you can now run npx mocha without having to install anything globally.
You can learn more about npx by reading the docs.
Jan Maas
2,282 PointsThank you so much for your reply :) It was indeed an install problem, I had to fix my permissions in order to get mocha to install propperly: https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions