npm test causing SyntaxError about solium-plugin-security HOT 3 CLOSED

Reproducing the discussed problem + solution here for others' reference:

Problem

normally, all plugins in solium are supposed to be installed separately by the dev.
exception is the security plugin solium-plugin-security - it comes installed as a local dependancy in solium (for convenience of user)
this plugin has solium installed as a dev dependancy (this is required bc solium is what will run the plugin's tests)

Now when you add new rules to the plugin in your dev environment & run the test with new configuration, solium (dev-dependancy) requires the plugin. But it doesn't require this plugin that you're working on. Instead it requires the one installed inside it as local dep.

So right now what you did was to remove all plugin modules within solium's reach and make your modified plugin globally available so Solium requires the modified one.
Apologies for this convoluted mess -.-", feel free to clarify anything you don't understand

Solution

Clone this repo and download all deps npm i --dev
Be in the plugin's root dir (where you ran npm test)

• cd node_modules/solium
• npm uninstall --save solium-plugin-security
• cd ../.. (back to root dir)
• npm uninstall --save solium-plugin-security
• npm link (or if this doesn't work) npm link solium-plugin-security
• npm test

(You need to do the above only once for every new copy you download)

Bear with this for a while, I'll fix it very soon

from solium-plugin-security.

I updated node to v8.9.1, and now all the tests are failing, all with the same issue. Here's one of the tests:

  9) [RULE] enforce-placeholder-last: Acceptances
       should accept contracts with bad placeholder style:
     TypeError: Cannot read property 'meta' of undefined
      at node_modules/solium/lib/rules.js:192:31
      at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
      at Object.load (node_modules/solium/lib/rules.js:190:23)
      at EventEmitter.lint (node_modules/solium/lib/solium.js:97:32)
      at badStyles.forEach.badStyle (test/enforce-placeholder-last.js:74:24)
      at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
      at Context.<anonymous> (test/enforce-placeholder-last.js:72:13)

from solium-plugin-security.

Fixed. Now you can set up dev env easily:

git clone ...
cd solium-plugin-security
npm i --dev
npm link / npm link solium-plugin-security
npm test
npm unlink (optional)

from solium-plugin-security.