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Description
Chai is a BDD / TDD assertion library for node and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework. Chai is an assertion library, similar to Node's built-in assert
Support and updates
- chai has 7620 stars, 698 forks.
- It has 2 major releases in the past 6 months.
- It has 0 commits and there are 12 open pull requests.
- It has 85 open issues and 804 have been closed.
Code statistics
- chai has 199 methods.
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License
chai is lincensed under the MIT License
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Downloads
chai can be downloaded from it’s GitHub repository - https://github.com/chaijs/chai
Method index
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- require
- Assertion
- util.test
- util.getActual
- util.getOperator
- an
- flag
- SameValueZero
- includeChainingBehavior
- include
- Object
- Object.keys
- assertExist
- checkArguments
- assertEqual
- assertEql
- assertAbove
- assertLeast
- assertBelow
- assertMost
- assertInstanceOf
- _.getName
- assertProperty
- assertOwnProperty
- assertOwnPropertyDescriptor
- Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor
- assertLengthChain
- assertLength
- assertMatch
- assertKeys
- keys.pop
- assertThrows
- Boolean
- _.checkError.compatibleInstance
- _.checkError.compatibleConstructor
- _.checkError.compatibleMessage
- respondTo
- satisfy
- matcher
- closeTo
- isSubsetOf
- superset.indexOf
- oneOf
- assertChanges
- assertIncreases
- assertDecreases
- assertDelta
- loadShould
- shouldGetter
- shouldSetter
- function
- Object.getOwnPropertyNames
- chainableBehavior.method.apply
- Object.create
- method.apply
- getter.call
- types.map
- type
- isObjectType
- addProperty
- Object.getPrototypeOf
- inspect
- isNaN
- chainingBehavior
- method
- getter
- stringDistanceCapped
- strA.charCodeAt
- exclude
- excludeProps
- AssertionError
- compatibleInstance
- compatibleConstructor
- compatibleMessage
- getFunctionName
- String
- getConstructorName
- getMessage
- FakeMap
- memoizeCompare
- memoizeMap.get
- leftHandMap.get
- memoizeSet
- deepEqual
- simpleEqual
- extensiveDeepEqual
- comparator
- extensiveDeepEqualByType
- regexpEqual
- entriesEqual
- iterableEqual
- generatorEqual
- hasIteratorFunction
- getIteratorEntries
- getGeneratorEntries
- generator.next
- getEnumerableKeys
- keysEqual
- objectEqual
- isPrimitive
- createCommonjsModule
- typeDetect
- _slicedToArray
- _arrayWithHoles
- _iterableToArrayLimit
- _unsupportedIterableToArray
- Object.prototype.toString.call
- _arrayLikeToArray
- _nonIterableRest
- colorise
- normaliseOptions
- truncate
- inspectList
- quoteComplexKey
- inspectProperty
- inspectArray
- getFuncName
- toString.call
- inspectTypedArray
- getArrayName
- inspectDate
- dateObject.toJSON
- inspectFunction
- getFuncName_1
- inspectMapEntry
- mapToEntries
- inspectMap
- inspectNumber
- inspectBigInt
- inspectRegExp
- value.toString
- arrayFromSet
- inspectSet
- escape
- inspectString
- inspectSymbol
- process.binding
- getPromiseDetails
- inspectObject
- inspectClass
- inspectArguments
- inspectAttribute
- inspectHTMLCollection
- inspectHTML
- element.getAttributeNames
- element.tagName.toLowerCase
- options.stylize
- inspectCustom
- registerConstructor
- registerStringTag
- hasProperty
- parsePath
- path.replace
- str.match
- regexp.exec
- internalGetPathValue
- internalSetPathValue
- getPathInfo
- getPathValue
- setPathValue
- Symbol
- Foo
- Thing
- CrashyObject
- CustomError
- Object.preventExtensions
- Object.seal
- Object.freeze
- FakeArgs
- clone
- badPropertyAssertion
- badOverwrittenPropertyAssertion
- badMethodAssertion
- badOverwrittenMethodAssertion
- badChainableMethodAssertion
- badOverwrittenChainableMethodAssertion
- expect
- test
- now.toISOString
- oneSecondAgo.toISOString
- oneSecondAfter.toISOString
- oneSecondBefore.toISOString
- f1
- f2
- plugin
- anotherPlugin
- chai.should
- assert
- utils.flag
- assertion1.to.returnNewAssertion
- origAssertion.eqqqual
- assertion1.four
- origAssertion.four
- assertion1.foo
- origAssertion.to.be.x
- assertion1.x
- proxify
- addLengthGuard
- expected
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