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support for `--watch`

See original GitHub issue

The mocha option --watch currently doesn’t seem to do anything. Could that be added? Besides that this is really great!

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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kontrollantencommented, Jul 6, 2018

It’s been some years since this was closed. I think it can be worth a new discussion whether this should be included in electron-mocha. mocha decided to keep watch since it’s widely used and appreciated by the community.

How much would it take to implement this functionality in electron-mocha? If it’s wanted I may put some time in doing a PoC for this.

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mweststratecommented, Sep 7, 2016

I did a quick investigation, it seems that watch is not handled by the mocha library itself, but by the CLI tool around it see, instead of here. (surprisingly this also holds for features like compilers). This makes it impossible to cleanly reuse the functionality, so it makes sense to me that you don’t want to support this scenario as it would indeed introduce additional maintenance.

Will search for another, less optimal, solution