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[LiTiang]

like angular2-webpack-starter

could u please give a example how to use AVA with Webpack?

[thrandre]

Sorry, but I have been extremely busy lately. I have added a minimal usage example, but the implementation and readme both need a bit of polishing. I am available for questions, but I hope this is enough to get you started.

Thank you!

[LiTiang]

@thrandre, i very very appreciate u reply me

& i also appreciate u present an example,

now i just have one more question about the functions of ava-webpack.

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In github project naming "angular2-webpack-starter",

i find out Karma do a magic thing,

when we run unit testing on typescript file,

Karma will use webpack to transpile typescript,

then Karma will test the result which webpack given !!!

( javascript file in memory, because we actually dont see any javascript file after transpiling by webapck)

but i dont want to use Karma for some reason,

"angular2-webpack-starter" use karma-webpack,

so it can do the magic i stated above.

so ... does ava-webpack also have the function i want ?

[thrandre]

No worries!

Firstly - You need to be aware that the inner workings of AVA and Karma are quite different. AVA runs your tests in Node while Karma require a browser (PhantomJS is often used for headless testing). Transpiling works pretty much the same in both cases, but keep in mind that webpack was initially created as a module bundler for the browser. Karma - being a more mature test runner - has better support for preprocessing than AVA currently has.

As for how ava-webpack work:

• Tests matching the glob you provide will be added as entries for webpack.
• Webpack transpiles your tests with the loaders provided in your config.
• Transpiled tests are emitted to a folder named .ava-webpack.
• The transpiled tests are fed to ava

Keep in mind that there is absolutely no sophistication behind this. This project is intended as a hackish solution to get AVA working with TypeScript (AllowSyntheticImports enabled). It is also worth mentioning that this project is temporary - waiting for AVA to implement planned support for webpack and browserify (avajs/ava#24).

If you are determined to run your tests in Node, but not necessarily with the use of AVA, you should consider Mocha and mocha-webpack (https://github.com/zinserjan/mocha-webpack) instead.

To answer your question: Yes, ava-webpack will perform the magic you describe, but maybe not in the way you want.

[LiTiang]

@thrandre
thanks a lot, i will try it
then i will let u know if i success or not
thanks again

[LiTiang]

Hi, @thrandre

i still fail to integrate ava-webpack with "angular2-webpack-starter",
may be such thing is too difficult for me ...
anyway, thanks u contribution.