Karma basePath is defaulting to C:\

Question

I am trying to run jasmine Specs through karma but when karma looks for my included files it uses a basepath of C:\ even though the configuration file is in C:\dev\project\.

I am running Karma in a gulp task:

var karma = require('karma').server;
gulp.task('test', function (done) {
    karma.start({configFile: '../../../karma.conf.js', singleRun: true}, done);
});

The settings that relate to this issue:

basePath: '',
files: [
 {patterns:'bower_components/**/*.js',included:true},
 {patterns:'src/*.js', included:true},
 {patterns:'tests/*Spec.js', included:true}
],
exclude: []

When I run gulp test the log from karma spits out this:

WARN [watcher]: Pattern "C:/bower_components/**/*.js" does not match any file.
WARN [watcher]: Pattern "C:/src/*.js" does not match any file.
WARN [watcher]: Pattern "C:/tests/*Spec.js" does not match any file.

I'm new to karma and am not really sure what the issue is here. I tried a basePath of '', './', and '/'.

Answer 1

Set the basePath to the local CWD directory path with:

basePath: process.cwd(), //  this gets the path which gulp is running in terminal
files: [
 {patterns:'bower_components/**/*.js',included:true},
 {patterns:'src/*.js', included:true},
 {patterns:'tests/*Spec.js', included:true}
],
exclude: []

process.cwd() gets the CLI path, the path which node is running in the terminal.