Collecting JavaScript code coverage with Capybara in Ruby on Rails application

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  1. Webpacker

    Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

    For example, there is a Ruby on Rails application that uses Webpacker and has JavaScript files that are covered by the system tests. Capybara is used as the system testing tool.

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  3. jest

    Delightful JavaScript Testing.

    This instrumenter is already outdated, but Jest is still using it to get coverage, and we have not found any alternatives to work with Webpack directly.

  4. Capybara

    Acceptance test framework for web applications

    For example, there is a Ruby on Rails application that uses Webpacker and has JavaScript files that are covered by the system tests. Capybara is used as the system testing tool.

  5. istanbul-instrumenter-loader

    Discontinued Istanbul Instrumenter Loader

    For getting coverage of the JavaScript code, we use Istanbul Instrumenter Loader. It needs to be added as a dev dependency with the package manager (Link to installation).

  6. codecov-ruby

    Discontinued Ruby uploader for Codecov

    For collecting the coverage results we will use Codecov. It has several arguments in his favor:

  7. nyc

    the Istanbul command line interface

    At the next stage, they are merged into one JSON file. For this purpose, we use nyc (Istanbul’s command line interface).

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