Unable to "require" a supporting class within a unit test, given the generated code from aurelia-cli.

I’m submitting a bug report

• Library Version: 0.21.0

Please tell us about your environment:

• Operating System: OSX 10.x/Windows 7
• Node Version: 4.4.3/5.4.0
• NPM Version: 3.10.9/3.9.1
• Browser: Only targeting Chrome at this time, however I suspect this will fail in other browsers.
• Language: all

Current behavior:

Unable to “require” a supporting class within a unit test, given the generated code from aurelia-cli.

The steps below have been applied to this repository

Following these steps I am unable to execute a test within the new aurelia cli framework.

• run au new
  • Accept all defaults except choose Typescript (however this fails with ESNext as well)
• Add new folder under test called utils as a sibling to unit
• Create a new file within utils called testHelper.ts

export TestHelper {
  Name : string;
}

• Modify app.spec.ts to include the new utility class and use it within the test

import {App} from '../../src/app';
import {TestHelper} from "../utils/testHelper";

describe('the app', () => {
  it('says hello', () => {

    let h = new TestHelper();

    h.Name = "John";

    expect(h.Name).toBe("John");
    expect(new App().message).toBe('Hello World!');
  });
});

• Add the utils folder to the files configuration object of karma within karma.config.js

let testSrc = [
  { pattern: 'test/utils/**/*.ts', included: false},
  { pattern: project.unitTestRunner.source, included: false },
  'test/aurelia-karma.js'
];

• Add the utils folder to the preprocessors configuration object of karma within karma.config.js

    preprocessors: {
      [project.unitTestRunner.source]: [project.transpiler.id],
      ['test/utils/**/*.ts']: [project.transpiler.id]
    },

• run au build
• run au test
• You will receive the following error:

λ au test
Starting 'unit'...
24 10 2016 15:11:42.954:INFO [karma]: Karma v0.13.22 server started at http://localhost:9876/
24 10 2016 15:11:42.971:INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Chrome
24 10 2016 15:11:43.969:INFO [Chrome 53.0.2785 (Windows 7 0.0.0)]: Connected on socket -rw81aF6Glx1RWjVAAAA with id 8644146
24 10 2016 15:11:44.149:WARN [web-server]: 404: /base/test/utils/helper
Chrome 53.0.2785 (Windows 7 0.0.0) ERROR
  Uncaught Error: Script error for "C:/git/aurelia-app/test/utils/helper", needed by: C:/git/aurelia-app/test/unit/app.spec.js
  http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#scripterror
  at C:/git/aurelia-app/scripts/vendor-bundle.js:3763


{ uid: 0,
  name: 'unit',
  branch: false,
  error: 1,
  duration: [ 2, -497867396 ],
  time: 1477336304256 }
1

[AStoker]

BTW, my testHelper.js is as follows (since I’m on ESNext)

export default class TestHelper{
    Name = 'test';
}

[AStoker]

Glad you got it working! Happy to help