Minimal, unopinionated Node.js test runner you assemble to taste.
Mocha provides the test structure — describe, it, hooks, reporters, async handling — and nothing else. You pair it with an assertion library such as Chai and a mocking library such as Sinon. That modularity is either its great strength or its great weakness depending on whether you enjoy choosing.
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What drives the bill: Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
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