Mocha hook to auto register should

[wotsyula]

Would be nice if there was a hook script to allow me to automatically load chai.should(). Something like:

mocha --require chai/register-should, chai-as-promised/should, sinon-chai/should

And have them automatically added for testing without the need to use require("chai").should() and chai.use(...)

I'd do it myself but it needs a register-should.js file stored in the chai node_modules directory.

[meeber]

@wotsyula thanks for posting!

The good news is that starting with the next version -r chai/should will properly register should per #604. However, it won't go any further by creating a global chai variable or anything like that.

The way I approach this situation currently is to create a test bootstrap file that performs the preparatory tasks, and then require that via -r test/bootstrap.

[wotsyula]

@meeber Thanks for the quick reply.

Good to hear. I'm gonna close this now. Before I do, I think chai/should is too vague. There should be at least some kind of verb. If your gonna go with bootstrap then chai/bootsrap-should would be less ambiguous. Personally my vote is for chai/register-should

[keithamus]

@wotsyula you could also make an npm module called chai-register-should which just contained global.should = require('chai').should().

[inancgumus]

Hey guys. I've added a pull request for expect here: #868