Ability to run unit tests against unbundled source files instead of bundled files

I’m submitting a feature request

• Library Version: 0.19.0

Please tell us about your environment:

• Operating System: Windows 10

• Node Version: 4.2.4

• NPM Version: 3.9.5

• Browser: all

• Language: all

Current behavior: Currently when running au test or au test --watch, the tests are being run against the bundled code.

Expected/desired behavior:

• What is the expected behavior? to be able run tests against transpiled source code instead of bundled code
• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? Currently, running the tests against the bundles is causing us to have to manually rebuild every time we make a change to the source files that we are testing. Also makes debugging a bit harder, since we are only seeing the transpiled, bundled code in the browser when running tests. Being able to test against the source code without bundling would improve this workflow.

[AStoker]

The benefit of having that external config file is that we can have some finer control of what files are loaded and how in situations that aren’t for production (such as various testing libraries). In our particular set up, we’re not wanting to run tests off of bundled code, but rather the source code. Currently, that requires requireJS to be configured, but that config file isn’t generated except by bundling code, and even then it’s put inside the bundle itself.

[AStoker]

@Jenselme, if you’re interested, I made a repo with the CLI and added modifications/notes on how to run TDD. It is dependent on getting the next version where you can externally configure the loader, but hopefully that gets deployed tomorrow. https://github.com/AStoker/Aurelia-TDD