In Brunch.io, how do we run tests

Question

In an application generated by Brunch.io, how do we run tests? I would like to run them via the command line.

For eg., the todos application has quite exhaustive test coverage. But its Cakefile is empty. When I run 'cake test', it doesn't do anything. Can someone please point me in the right direction on the setup work needed to run the tests (either on command line or on browser)?

Answer 1

Currently there is no official way to run tests in brunch 0.9.

But brunch 1.0 will introduce full support of testing with Mocha and cakefiles.

So you're doing the right thing.

Answer 2

Look at coffee-purist-brunch :

With this skeleton, run npm test instead of brunch test or npm start in addition to brunch watch in order to automatically run tests. This runs the tests directly on the coffeescript files in test/ and utilizes NPM-installed test libraries instead of static ones from test/vendor/ as other skeletons do.

And brunch-dutch-baby uses Karma.