poku v1.9.4

Poku

Poku can show you how simple testing can be 🌱

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Reasons to Adopt a Poku →

No configurations       Auto detect ESM and CJS       Auto detect Typescript files       Don't export your server (just run it) 🚀

Less verbose High isolation level per file       No eval needed 🔐       No global state Parallel and Sequential runs 🏃🏽🏃🏻

Poku is 100% documented Designed to be human-friendly Compatible with Coverage tools Node.js, Bun and Deno compatibility 🩵

✨ You are free to work with the packages you desire 🧑🏻‍🎓 You don't need to learn it all at once to get started 🧑🏻‍🔬 Poku adapts to your test, not the other way around ☁ Zero external dependencies (that means lightweight) 👴🏼 Poku doesn't restrict you from testing in legacy environments

Quickstart

Install 📦

npm i -D poku

npm i -D poku tsx

bun add -d poku

deno add npm:poku

Test it 🔬

import { assert } from 'poku';

assert(true, 'Poku will describe it 🐷');

• Change from .mjs to .js by defining "type": "module" in your package.json.
• Note that these examples use ESM, but you can use CJS as well.

Run it 🚀

npx poku

bun poku

deno run npm:poku

That's it 🎉

• See the complete assert's documentation.
• See the complete poku's documentation.

Available Methods

Essentials

• poku (test runner)
• assert (test assertion)
• startScript (run package.json scripts in a background process)
• startService (run files in a background process)

Helpers

• beforeEach and afterEach
• test
• describe
• and much more ✨

See the complete documentation.

Overview

poku

See the complete poku's documentation.

assert

• 💚 Use it exactly as it's for Node.js
• 🐷 Node.js, Bun and Deno compatibility

See the complete assert's documentation.

Documentation and Examples

To see the detailed documentation, please visit the Documentation and Examples sections in the Poku's website.

Community

I'm continuously working to improve Poku. If you've got something interesting to share, feel free to submit a Pull Request. If you notice something wrong, I'd appreciate if you'd open an Issue.

Contributing

Please check the CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions 🚀

Philosophy

Please check the Philosophy section from Documentation.

License

Poku is under the MIT License.

Security Policy

Please check the SECURITY.md and the section Is Poku Safe? from Documentation.

Limitations

• Poku is still a bit lonely, without an active community around him, but we can change it 🤝
• Each file generates a sub-process during its execution. This can be reflected in projects with an extremely high volume of test files when run in parallel.

Acknowledgements

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