proxyquire VS Nightmare

Compare proxyquire vs Nightmare and see what are their differences.

proxyquire

đź”® Proxies nodejs require in order to allow overriding dependencies during testing. (by thlorenz)
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proxyquire Nightmare
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2,741 19,511
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0.0 1.5
over 1 year ago 15 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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proxyquire

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxyquire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-17.
  • Best practices for writing testable ES6 modules
    1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 8 Jun 2023
    Take a look at proxyquire: https://www.npmjs.com/package/proxyquire - they do some fancy magic to allow you to stub es module imports.
  • AWS Lambda Functions (Node.js) - Unit testing using Mocha and Chai
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Dec 2021
    Now that we know how to call/execute a lambda function in our local. Let us learn about mocking the dependencies inside the lambda function. These dependencies can be any third-party libraries or DB call or even an API call. To override and mock these dependencies we can use proxyquire package.
  • Don't mock modules
    1 project | dev.to | 4 May 2021
    I have been wary of this from when it first came about with rewire and similar libraries. As time has gone on my opinion has only strengthened, and with jest actively embracing mocking modules, I feel like nobody has even bothered to make a counter argument.
  • Is this type of monkeypatching possible in js?
    1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 12 Mar 2021
    If you move foo to a different file and use something like proxyquire, you can override the require from that file to foo.js and sub in something else in the test.

Nightmare

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nightmare. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxyquire and Nightmare you can also consider the following projects:

Sinon.JS - Test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

chai - BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js and the browser that can be paired with any testing framework.

nightwatch - Integrated end-to-end testing framework written in Node.js and using W3C Webdriver API. Developed at @browserstack

Enzyme - JavaScript Testing utilities for React

Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.

expect.js - Minimalistic BDD-style assertions for Node.JS and the browser.

phantomjs - Scriptable Headless Browser

WebdriverIO - Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js

Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

zora - Lightest, yet Fastest Javascript test runner for nodejs and browsers