Issue
I have setup mocha to run test on my express application. However mocha test fails every time I run npm test without giving any error refer to the screen
here is my snippet of my package.json, my folder structure and code
I tried running mocha manually also but it doesn’t print anything. it just exit the process. lastly i tried running it in the debug mode and here is the log of debug mode
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'test'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose run-script [ 'pretest', 'test', 'posttest' ]
5 info lifecycle [email protected]~pretest: [email protected]
6 info lifecycle [email protected]~test: [email protected]
7 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~test: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~test: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;E:\The expert Institute\data-central-backend\node_modules\.bin;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Users\Admin\bin;C:\Program Files\Python39\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Python39;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.9\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Program Files (x86)\Terraform;C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\Scripts
9 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~test: CWD: E:\The expert Institute\data-central-backend
10 silly lifecycle [email protected]~test: Args: [ '/d /s /c', "mocha './tests/*.test.js'" ]
11 silly lifecycle [email protected]~test: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle [email protected]~test: Failed to exec test script
13 verbose stack Error: [email protected] test: `mocha './tests/*.test.js'`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5)
14 verbose pkgid [email protected]
15 verbose cwd E:\The expert Institute\data-central-backend
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19042
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "run" "test"
18 verbose node v14.15.4
19 verbose npm v6.14.10
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error [email protected] test: `mocha './tests/*.test.js'`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the [email protected] test script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
Operating system – windows 10
Node version – 14 LTS
NPM version – 6.14.10
Solution
Answer to this problem was very quite simple. My node server was already running on port 3000. now when I ran npm test, chai-http was starting the node server again see this line
no two server can run on same port, so my node process was exiting upon port conflict and it wasn’t giving me any error that why my test was not working