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Is there something like this available for javascript?

tobyhinloopen 4y ago
Not really, no. I like to use Jest’s toMatchObject to combine multiple assertions in a single assertion. If the assertion fails, the full object on both sides is shown in logs. You can easily debug tests that way. The only way to make it even possible is to do some eval magic or to use a pre-processor like babel or a typescript compiler plugin. But if you find something, Lemme know.
- fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
  Well, Function.toString() should print the code of a lambda in JavaScript. So I think you could do it without a pre-processor: use Babel as a library to parse the body of the function; run each sub-expression separately and display the results.
  - tobyhinloopen 4y ago
    Can you actually do that, since you don’t have the context the function is running in? You can inspect the source, but functions don’t run in isolation so you cannot extract the source and run it somewhere else. Simple example: var x = 0; var y = function() { x++; }; You can’t reliably execute function y with just y’s function body. Maybe if you replace the function with another by injecting code into a copy of the source, but I’m not sure if that’s even possible.
    - fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
      You can just document a constraint that these function must use the purely functional subset of JavaScript, which is enough for the sorts of assertions I typically write. Alternatively, you could constrain it to the subset that has no unbound variables or side effects.
xeromal 4y ago
I'm not aware of any related to testing, but perhaps you could use something like this in tandem with some tests to pull it off? https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern
eurasiantiger 4y ago
You could parse the failing expression using babel and get an AST back.
dalmo3 4y ago
It might not be the general solution you're looking for, but idiomatic Jest does the job for me. expect(width).toBeGreaterThan(0); expect(x+width).toBeLessThan(screenWidth); When an assertion fails it will tell you: "Expected: X; Received: Y"
fomine3 4y ago
power-assert

Not really, no. I like to use Jest’s toMatchObject to combine multiple assertions in a single assertion. If the assertion fails, the full object on both sides is shown in logs. You can easily debug tests that way. The only way to make it even possible is to do some eval magic or to use a pre-processor like babel or a typescript compiler plugin. But if you find something, Lemme know.

fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
Well, Function.toString() should print the code of a lambda in JavaScript. So I think you could do it without a pre-processor: use Babel as a library to parse the body of the function; run each sub-expression separately and display the results.
- tobyhinloopen 4y ago
  Can you actually do that, since you don’t have the context the function is running in? You can inspect the source, but functions don’t run in isolation so you cannot extract the source and run it somewhere else. Simple example: var x = 0; var y = function() { x++; }; You can’t reliably execute function y with just y’s function body. Maybe if you replace the function with another by injecting code into a copy of the source, but I’m not sure if that’s even possible.
  - fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
    You can just document a constraint that these function must use the purely functional subset of JavaScript, which is enough for the sorts of assertions I typically write. Alternatively, you could constrain it to the subset that has no unbound variables or side effects.

xeromal 4y ago

I'm not aware of any related to testing, but perhaps you could use something like this in tandem with some tests to pull it off? https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern https://github.com/gvergnaud/ts-pattern

eurasiantiger 4y ago

You could parse the failing expression using babel and get an AST back.

dalmo3 4y ago

It might not be the general solution you're looking for, but idiomatic Jest does the job for me. expect(width).toBeGreaterThan(0); expect(x+width).toBeLessThan(screenWidth); When an assertion fails it will tell you: "Expected: X; Received: Y"

fomine3 4y ago

power-assert