Phase 12 · Testing

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Mocha & Chai

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

A flexible, unopinionated test runner (Mocha) commonly paired with an assertion library (Chai) — an older but still widely used alternative to Jest in many Node.js codebases.

How to Learn This

  • 1Set up Mocha + Chai and write a test equivalent to one you wrote in Jest.
  • 2Compare Chai's `expect`/`should` assertion styles to Jest's built-in `expect`.
  • 3Understand why some existing codebases still use Mocha+Chai over Jest.
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