在带有节点NOT io.js的Mocha测试中使用jQuery

Question

I'm running Mocha/Chai unit tests of a module which uses jQuery (for ajax calls) and of course jQuery complains about the missing document, cause I run tests without browser. I found jsdom module which creates virtual dom, that can fool jquery, but the project has ditched node.js in favor of io.js and can't be used with node. I don't think I feel like switching to io.js in the middle of a project so my question is:

Is there any sane way of using jQuery in Mocha tests from commandline at the moment?

Answer 1

Node can make its own HTTP requests with a built-in http module. You don't need jQuery. There is also the request module which is very nice and probably quite a few others.

Your options are:

1. Don't use jQuery
2. Switch to iojs anyway (or node 4 )
3. Install an older version (earlier than version 4) of jsdom that will still allow you to use older versions of node