Node.js version 20 comes with a new, built-in, stable test runner. This post takes a look into what you can do with it, with a small example test project.
Node.js version 20 comes with a new, built-in, stable test runner. This post takes a look into what you can do with it, with a small example test project.
I think you’re absolutely right about the difficulty for developers inadvertently getting the legacy assert behaviour. Though I hope if they do that, they at least recognise that they can use the
strictmethods.The early module had both non-strict and strict methods, even from that early time, so the original author recognised the need for using
===, but I guess wanted to be flexible and allow for==usage too. Perhaps this was a bad decision, but it was made in version 0.1.21, so I would guess there was a lot of fast work going on with Node at the time and maybe not everything was thought through in as much depth as it could be. It’s possible that one day the strict module may take over the place of the existing assert module, but that would be quite the breaking change!