gulp karma test TypeError: Server is not a function

Question

Trying to run karma using gulp for running tests but after following the example from: https://github.com/karma-runner/gulp-karma

My gulp file:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var Server = require('karma').Server;

/**
 * Run test once and exit
 */
gulp.task('test', function (done) {
  new Server({
    configFile: __dirname + '/karma.conf.js',
    singleRun: true
  }, done).start();
});

/**
 * Watch for file changes and re-run tests on each change
 */
gulp.task('tdd', function (done) {
  new Server({
    configFile: __dirname + '/karma.conf.js'
  }, done).start();
});

gulp.task('default', ['tdd']);

after I run: gulp test I get the Error:

TypeError: Server is not a function at Gulp.<anonymous>

Any suggestions of what might be wrong?

Answer 1

Which version of karma do you have installed?

The API has changed from 0.12 to 0.13 and the example you've shown is the one for 0.13 .

The previous API was the following:

var server = require('karma').server;

//... more code
server.start( { .... } , function(exitCode){
  // ...
});

Answer 2

The issue was that karma-cli npm module wasn't properly installed globally. Running: npm install -g karma-cli solved the issue.