doctest-ts: doctests for TypeScript

Say you have a file src/hasFoo.ts with a function like hasFoo:

function hasFoo(s: string): boolean {
  return null != s.match(/foo/i)
}

You can now make documentation and unit tests for this function in one go:

/** Does this string contain foo, ignoring case?

    hasFoo('___foo__') // => true
    hasFoo('   fOO  ') // => true
    hasFoo('Foo.') // => true
    hasFoo('bar') // => false
    hasFoo('fo') // => false
    hasFoo('oo') // => false

*/
function hasFoo(s: string): boolean {
  return null != s.match(/foo/i)
}

Since the function is not exported we can only test this by either editing or copying the entire file and gluing on tests at the end. This library goes for the second approach: making a copy of the file with the translated tests at the end. Run it like so:

$ doctest-ts src/hasFoo.ts
Writing src/hasFoo.doctest.ts

The contents of src/hasFoo.doctest.ts is the original file prepended to the doctests rewritten as unit tests.

/** Does this string contain foo, ignoring case?

    hasFoo('___foo__') // => true
    hasFoo('   fOO  ') // => true
    hasFoo('Foo.') // => true
    hasFoo('bar') // => false
    hasFoo('fo') // => false
    hasFoo('oo') // => false

*/
function hasFoo(s: string): boolean {
  return null != s.match(/foo/i)
}

import * as __test from "tape"
__test("hasFoo", t => {t.deepEqual(hasFoo("___foo__"), true, "true")
t.deepEqual(hasFoo("   fOO  "), true, "true")
t.deepEqual(hasFoo("Foo."), true, "true")
t.deepEqual(hasFoo("bar"), false, "false")
t.deepEqual(hasFoo("fo"), false, "false")
t.deepEqual(hasFoo("oo"), false, "false")
;t.end()})

This can now be run with the tape runner or ts-node:

$ ts-node src/hasFoo.doctest.ts | tap-diff
  hasFoo
    ✔  true
    ✔  true
    ✔  true
    ✔  false
    ✔  false
    ✔  false
        Done in 0.37s.

passed: 6  failed: 0  of 6 tests  (171ms)

All of 6 tests passed!

There are four different outputs available:

• tape
• AVA
• jest
• mocha (using chai)

Pull requests for other test runners are welcome.

Watching file changes

We can tell doctest-ts to watch for file changes and report which files it has written. It tries to be a good unix citizen and thus writes the files it has created on stdout (and some info on stderr). This makes it possible to run test runners on each line on stdout like so:

ts-node src/main.ts --watch src/hasFo.ts |
while read file; do echo running tape on $file; ts-node $file | tap-diff; done

Let's say we remove the ignore case i flag from the regex in hasFoo. We get this output (automatically):

Writing src/hasFoo.doctest.ts
running tape on src/hasFoo.doctest.ts

  hasFoo
    ✔  true
    ✖  true at Test.t (src/hasFoo.doctest.ts:18:3)
        [-false-][+true+]
    ✖  true at Test.t (src/hasFoo.doctest.ts:19:3)
        [-false-][+true+]
    ✔  false
    ✔  false
    ✔  false

passed: 4  failed: 2  of 6 tests  (264ms)

2 of 6 tests failed.

License

MIT