Nyanplusreporter NPM

Nyan Cat Reporter Plus for Mocha

Make unit testing fun. Plays the (in-)famous Nyan cat song while running through your tests. But you need to feed Nyan cat tests. Otherwise it is going to fly off.

Features

Play the actual Nyan cat song!
Delay console outputs because they make Nyan cat sad.
Fix rainbowification (e.g. on Windows <10).

Install

npm install nyanPlusReporter --save-dev

Use

Append, or add to your mocha.opts either

--reporter nyanPlusReporter

--reporter path/to/file.without js extension and relative to project root (e.g. "node_modules/nyanPlusReporter/src/nyanPlus")

depending on whether you have installed Mocha locally or globally (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21367820/how-to-create-a-custom-reporter-with-mocha).

Notes

You need to have a couple of tests in order to hear anything. That is a feature motivating you to add more tests.
The package uses "node-wav-player" because it is cross-platform out of the box.
The unit tests use the default reporter in order to avoid audio playback interference.
Tested on Win7, Win10, Mac OSX (vm), Debian (vm), Fedora (vm)

Bugs, limitations, caveats, etc

Possibly jelous co-workers who do not have as much fun as you do.
Possibly annoyed co-workers if you, or they, are in lack of ear phones.
There is a ~5MB .wav file.
When the song repeats after 26sec there is a noticable interruption.
Feature or not, on my Win7 (i5, 8GB) test system, the wav-player needs some time to spin up. The very first run may take some seconds. Consecutive runs may take up to 2 seconds. The wav-player module is only a middle man calling native audio players. So, I am not sure it can be sped up. It gets way better on an i7 with 16GB though.