How do I test AngularJS code using Mocha?

Question

Basically, I\'m quite experienced with Mocha (written thousands of unit tests), and I\'m quite new to AngularJS (written just my first project).

Now I am wondering how I

Answer 1

One way of doing that is to use Angular $injector in your tests:

myModule_test.js

suite('myModule', function(){
  setup(function(){
    var app = angular.module('myModule', []);
    var injector = angular.injector(['myModule', 'ng']);
    var service = injector.get('myService');
  });

  suite('myService', function(){
    test('should return correct value', function(){
       // perform test with an instance of service here
    });
  });
});

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