Real Time Development (RTD) with Meteor

If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at the RTD blurb.

This is a template project exemplifying RTD with Meteor.

What you get:

Meteor unit testing with Jasmine, with all the necessary stubbing that isolates units of code
Compile-time test coverage using Istanbul
File watcher runs all tests and coverage reports (thanks to Karma)
End-to-end acceptance testing with WebdriverJS + PhantomJS/GhostDriver running against separate synchronized Meteor instance with it's own database

What being worked on right now:

File watcher updates browser windows showing acceptance test/coverage reports
Combined code coverage report from both unit and acceptance test runs (to give a true indication of test coverage)
Growl notifications

What planned eventually:

How does it work?

Karma is configured with file watchers, Jasmine (can easily be switched to Mocha), console reporter and test coverage
Retrofitted unit and acceptance tests around the Meteor leaderboard example app demonstrating 100% test coverage
Templates stub that expose attributes, functions and events to unit tests
Model stub that allows Jasmine spies to spy and assert
Meteor stub with hooks into the Meteor.xyz methods
Session stub with get/set methods
Collection stub that allows you to count the number of times a collection has been initialized
Grunt script that keeps a parallel instance of meteor updates with code changes dedicated to acceptance tests
A grunt task that runs all of the above together

Ensure you have Meteor installed:

  curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

You'll need node

You should also have these installed globally:

  npm install -g karma
  npm install -g phantomjs
  npm install -g selenium-webdriver

Clone this project's git repo, cd into the /test directory and run:

  npm install
  grunt

Enjoy seeing unit tests, acceptance tests and coverage feedback as well as app updates every time you save a file.