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What changes is Mocha waiting for...?

I am running a set of tests, and mocha runs the tests the first time I run it, but then it says:

ℹ [mocha] waiting for changes...

but it waits forever. No changes I make cause it to rerun my tests.

The test itself is a chai test, run with mocha. Everything is in Typescript

I am running the tests as follows:

  "scripts": {
    "tests": "mocha --require ts-node/register --watch --watch-extensions ts ./*.spec.ts"
  }

I've changed both the test files and the implementation files, and nothing happens.

Solution

  • --watch-extensions is probably no more. See current options : https://mochajs.org/#command-line-usage. Use --extensions.

    Note: At some point --watch-extensions was deprecated.