Wallaby.js on 1.8 Broken

[hwillson]

@a4xrbj1 I love Wallaby.js, but its compatibility with Meteor is not something we check for, when making core improvements to Meteor’s internals (like the mentioned Meteor Tool bundler commit does). Improving Meteor’s Wallaby support is not something that’s currently planned internally, but if anyone is interested in improving Meteor’s Wallaby or testing support in general, please kick start a discussion over in GitHub - meteor/meteor-feature-requests: A tracker for Meteor issues that are requests for new functionality, not bugs. · GitHub. That being said, you can definitely still use Wallaby with Meteor, but it can take a bit of work to get setup properly. I outlined some of this a while back in:

Meteor 1.3 testing - with "meteor/meteor:x" package imports

I’ve finally taken the time to get external Meteor unit testing and wallaby (via Atom) all wired up. I’ve tried using both approaches discussed in this thread - 1) mocking all Meteor dependencies with something like testdouble, and 2) loading the Meteor context to leverage Meteor dependencies (and Meteor packages) directly. Here’s a quick breakdown of my findings. 1) Mocking Meteor Dependencies Going with the mocking all Meteor dependencies approach definitely returns testing results faster. …