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mocha
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mochajs / mocha

mocha

☕️ Classic, reliable, trusted test framework for Node.js and the browser

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☕️ Classic, reliable, trusted test framework for Node.js and the browser

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:59:22 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year15 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-11-23 21:49:57 UTC to 2024-09-09 08:47:04 UTC.

01232011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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basicallydan·Sep 18, 2014
This is a really interesting analysis. From these graphs we could come up with some reasonable boundaries. Packages that: - have more than one version: 71853 - are over two weeks old: 42106 - had a new release in the last 360 days: 71277 There are 31888 packages satisfying all three conditions above. Though it’s only one third of all packages there, the amount is still enormous. Now, if only I could search those 31,888 packages on NPM alone if I wanted to. EDIT: By the way, for anybody reading this article not familiar with the JavaScript ecosystem, this is interesting: Mocha is clearly the most popular test framework, while nodeunit is way behind. And no-one seems to use Jasmine. Jasmine appears to be unpopular within the JavaScript community but in reality that just accounts for those in the NodeJS and,
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more recently, the subset of the front-end JS community who use NodeJS tools in their projects. Mocha, the most popular test framework, has been a Node module since late 2011 [0], whereas Jasmine has only been one since mid-2013 [1]. I have a hunch that the majority of Jasmine users aren't on-board with the movement of front-end JS and NodeJS ecosystems merging, and since Jasmine [3] doesn't really aim itself at NodeJS projects, it's far less likely to be used in any project which uses NPM for dependency management. Not really that important, just interesting :) [0]: https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/commits/master/package.... [1]: https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine/commits/master/package.js... [2]: https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine
In NPM registry in numbers
samsaccone·Sep 9, 2014
author here: Pioneer uses cucumber and Pioneer for its tests, you are correct. We also have a suite of unit tests that are powered by mocha. Since we wanted true integration tests we choice to use Pioneer to test Pioneer. We wanted our feature files to act as documentation thus Cucumber was a clear choice. As far as precedence goes ... This is not an uncommon pattern Mocha uses mocha to test https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha/blob/master/test/http.m...
In Pioneer.js – JavaScript Integration Testing DSL

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