Trouble Running Qunit Tests With Static Server Using Grunt

Running the tests via a web browser works fine, but using grunt gives me errors. I struggle to understand what I'm doing wrong here. grunt tests fails with $ grunt tests Running 'j

Solution 1:

You'll need to run your Node server as another step in your grunt process. There is a grunt task for specifically running Express servers, I'd recommend starting there. Here's what the grunt config might look like:

grunt.initConfig({//...express: {  //thisisthenewtask...dev: {
        options: {
          script:'path/to/main.js'
        }
      }
    },connect: {
      server: {
        options: {
          port:3000,  //Ichangedthissoitdoesn'tconflictwithyourexpressappbase:'.'
        }
      }
    },qunit: {
      all: {
        options: {
          urls: [
            'http://localhost:3000/tests/tests.html'//changedthisaswell
          ]
        }
      }
    }
});

Then you'll want to run all three tasks as your "test" run. You can create an alias like so:

grunt.registerTask('tests', ['jsonlint', 'jshint', 'express', 'connect', 'qunit']);