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rvagg / polendina

Non-UI browser testing for JavaScript libraries from the command-line
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Zero-config Ava support #5

Open transitive-bullshit opened 4 years ago

transitive-bullshit commented 4 years ago

First off, I really like what you've built with this library -- I've needed something like this numerous times and your implementation looks rock solid. 🙏

I mostly use Ava as my test runner of choice, and though Ava explicitly only supports node.js, I feel like the 95% use case could be supported in browser by something like polendina pretty easily by using a patched version of ava or something.

I'd personally definitely use this project if it supported ava.

Thoughts?

rvagg commented 4 years ago

though Ava explicitly only supports node.js

This is something I'd need more info on. I've been interested in Ava but never actually used it, I was under the impression it did more than just Node.

I'm in the same boat here with node-tap - my ideal would be to use it for my projects but it's explicitly Node only and uses child processes and other Node-specific magic to get its work done and it's far too complex to consider a browser version (and it'd be chasing a moving target since they have no interest in it being browser compatible.

So, if you could figure out what it is that makes Ava Node.js-specific that would be a help, if it's something like sharding tests across child processes then it might be too complex to be worth the bother.