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Example of Mocha-based browser unit tests for a Node/Express application, using the Chai assertion library
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My Browser Tests</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../node_modules/mocha/mocha.css" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- Div used by mocha to report results -->
<div id="mocha"></div>
<!-- Common libraries -->
<script src="../../public/javascripts/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="../../public/javascripts/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="../../public/javascripts/underscore.string.min.js"></script>
<script src="../../public/javascripts/backbone-min.js"></script>
<!-- Mocha library setup -->
<script src="../../node_modules/mocha/mocha.js"></script>
<script>
mocha.setup('bdd');
</script>
<!-- Chai library setup -->
<script src="../../node_modules/chai/chai.js"></script>
<script>
chai.Assertion.includeStack = true;
should = chai.should();
assert = chai.assert;
expect = chai.expect;
</script>
<!-- Modules to be tested -->
<script src="../public/javascripts/my-models.js"></script>
<script src="../public/javascripts/my-views.js"></script>
<!-- Tests -->
<script src="my-models-test.js"></script>
<script src="my-views-test.js"></script>
<!-- Run tests -->
<script>
mocha.run();
</script>
</body>
</html>
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