Create an article on how ES2015 classes relate to stubbing/spying

[fatso83]

A couple of issues with a huge pile of comments shows there is some confusion as to how (if at all possible) one can stub constructors in ES6/ES2015 classes. This has been answered in the comments, but it should be expanded to an article showing what can and cannot be done.

Compiled it down to this list of issues/links (from here), which can serve as the basis for one or more articles. Also, this search could prove useful.

Show how to stub ES6 constructor #1265

https://github.com/sinonjs/sinon/issues/1265 What: Feature request to automatically call stubbed/spied constructors with new. Why: Often asked for. People get confused about Function#constructor and the constructor keyword. Should either make a small tutorial to document how to "stub" (make a new) constructor and/or introduce a small Sinon NPM plugin to do so (in the article).

ES6 classes and stubbing out dependencies using proxyquire

https://github.com/sinonjs/sinon/issues/831#issuecomment-209648966 https://gist.github.com/fatso83/329da40002d45533b1e74db825f2bf54 What: how to use proxyquire to intercept dependencies Why: often asked for

Document how to configure Node to allow stubbing EcmaScript modules #1832

https://github.com/sinonjs/sinon/issues/1832 Why: Often asked for. Needs extra tools (esm).

Stubbing instance methods

https://github.com/sinonjs/sinon/issues/878#issuecomment-250198255

Cannot stub arrow function in a class #1136

https://github.com/sinonjs/sinon/issues/1136#issuecomment-244608044

[daprahamian]

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[fatso83]

No time yet, but for people coming here please read the comment thread in 831 and see if it covers the info on what you are trying to do. Alternatively this or this.