How to specify outside resources for tests?

[marcandre]

How do we specify where to find outside resources like jQuery for tests?

Backstory:
Parsley is a fairly popular jQuery plugin for web validations. We'd love to port Parsley to ES6. We're trying this project to do so. @guillaumepotier doesn't have much time to fiddle with the setup, and I'm quite ignorant about tooling (and not that eager to change that fact, tbh).

I think it would be a good goal for this project that such a porting require very little changes to the boilerplate install, do you agree? So I thought it might be a good idea to report difficulties we're having.

We have a branch for that. The imports work fine for the Parsley code, but I don't know how to import jQuery in tests. Hopefully it's simple. It is, of course, completely out of the question to bundle jQuery with Parsley's dist/ files...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jamesplease]

@marcandre , requiring in 3rd party libs in the tests should be the same as requiring them in the library itself. Usually I'll do...

// some-unit-test.js

import MyLib from '../../path/to/my-lib';
import $ from 'jquery';

// ...tests here

Is this not working for you?

[jamesplease]

@marcandre , I left a comment over on that PR. It was typed pretty quickly, so do let me know if it's too vague. I'd love to help ya get that PR landed!

[jamesplease]

@marcandre , is this good to close?

[marcandre]

Yes! Thanks so much for your help 😄

[jamesplease]

Rad. No problem - I'm happy to help! Hopefully we can get Parsley in the green soon :)