Matt Blair

Matt Blair

I read that you learn more from a poor example than from a correct one. I don't believe this but that means my site will be a success.

Code coverage for CoffeeScript and JavaScript without pre-compiling

Code coverage for CoffeeScript and JavaScript using gulp and istanbul without pre-compiling

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If you’re not aware of your code coverage when building a serious application, you’re not building a serious app.

So I love istanbul and gulp-istanbul.

One problem - you have to compile your CoffeeScript, then point you tests at the compiled assets to get coverage metrics.

Not anymore. Introducing gulp-coffee-istanbul. This allows in place CoffeeScript test coverage.

Have tests in coffee? Great. Have tests in JS? Great too. Same with your dependencies - it’ll take both, in place, and run coverage.

A quick and dirty example:

istanbul = require('gulp-coffee-istanbul')
# We'll use mocha here, but any test framework will work
mocha = require('gulp-mocha')

jsFiles = ['config/**/*.js', 'controllers/**/*.js', 'models/**/*.js', 'app.js']
specFiles = ['spec/**/*.coffee']
coffeeFiles = ['src/**/*.coffee']

gulp.task 'test', ->
  gulp.src jsFiles.concat(coffeeFiles)
    .pipe istanbul({includeUntested: true}) # Covering files
    .pipe istanbul.hookRequire()
    .on 'finish', ->
      gulp.src specFiles
        .pipe mocha reporter: 'spec'
        .pipe istanbul.writeReports() # Creating the reports after tests run

Which will give you

Output from gulp showing js and coffee coverage

Notice that both coffee and js files are shown in the output.

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