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// index.js
function myTask(args) {
  if (somethingBadHappened()) {
    throw new Error('Too many cooks will spoil the broth.');
  }
}

// tasks/task.js
module.exports = function(grunt) {
  // Sync version

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// index.js
function myTask(args) {
}

// tasks/task.js
module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.registerMultiTask('my-task', function() {
    var myTask = require('../');
    var options = this.options();
    

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'use strict';

module.exports = function(grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({});
    grunt.registerTask('this-will-fail', function() {
        var done = this.async();
        setTimeout(function() {
            done('An error has occurred.');
        }, 500);
    });

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'use strict';

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.registerTask('my-task', function myTaskFn() {
    // This code only gets run when your task executes, 
    // so you can do work here and not worry about
    // slowing everyone else down.
    var bigDep = require('big-dependency');
    bigDep();
  });

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// app code file
const constants = require('./constants');
module.exports = function getGreeting(name) {
  return CONSTANTS.GREETING_PREFIX + name;
}

// test code file snippet
expect(getGreeting('Sam')).to.equal('Hi, Sam');

// constants file

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// app code file
// app/utils/get-greeting.js
const constants = require('../constants');
module.exports = function getGreeting(name) {
  return CONSTANTS.GREETING_PREFIX + name;
}

// test code file snippet
// test/utils/get-greeting.test.js
const constants = require('../../app/constants');

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// Make a bunch of stub objects like this,
// commingling mock behavior with test assertions.
const npm = {
        config: {
            get: function(prop) {
                expect(prop).to.equal('registry');
                if (prop === 'registry') {
                    return npmRegistry;
                }
            }

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const writtenManifest = readJson('test-dir/manifest.json');

// bad
expect(manifest).to.deep.equal({
  // One giant hardcoded object, including fields we are about...
  foo: 'bar',
  odp: 'quux',
  
  // ...and fields we don't
  superfluousField: 'We do not really care about this field '

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// heartbeat.js
module.exports = function* heartbeat(next) {
    if (this.path !== '/heartbeat') {
        return yield next;
    }
    
    this.body = 'OK';
}

// in the index.js, we use the middleware

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// BAD APPROACH
const heartbeat = require('./heartbeat'),
    coTape = require('co-tape'),
    tape = require('tape');
    
tape('heartbeat', function(t) {
  t.test('serves heartbeat request', coTape(function*(t) {
    t.plan(1);
    
    // add some knowledge of implementation details of what we're testing