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Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin

Reputation: 461217

Updating the version of Jasmine used in karma-jasmine

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Background

I've installed Karma and karma-jasmine using Yeoman as follows:

$ npm install -g generator-angular
$ mkdir myapp && cd $_
$ yo angular

Given that myapp/bower.json didn't list Jasmine as one of the Bower installed front-end packages but myapp/karma.conf.js listed Jasmine as the default testing framework, I was surprised the command grunt test worked. (The Gruntfile.js, bower.json, and karma.conf.js files were all created as part of the yo angular scaffolding process.)

Upon closer inspection of the myapp/node_modules packages, I realized that karma-jasmine doesn't point to a separate installation of Jasmine. The karma-jasmine plugin actually installs Jasmine:

▼ myapp/
  ▼ karma_jasmine/
    ▼ lib/
        adapter.js
        index.js
        jasmine.js

Given that karma-jasmine says it is an "adapter for the Jasmine testing framework," I was a little surprised that karma-jasmine didn't require us to install Jasmine separately.

Package Versions

Here are the various package versions used:

Upvotes: 37

Views: 32202

Answers (3)

Bullsized
Bullsized

Reputation: 607

A useful tip here would be to do:

npm outdated

This will list all the outdated dependencies, including their current and latest versions, so you can get oriented better what you should update.

Afterwards,

npm install karma@latest jasmine-core@latest

would do the trick.

Upvotes: 0

josketres
josketres

Reputation: 3369

You can know the jasmine version you are using by running the following Spec:

describe('Test to print out jasmine version', function() {
  it('prints jasmine version', function() {
    console.log('jasmine-version:');
    console.log(jasmine.version || (jasmine.getEnv().versionString && jasmine.getEnv().versionString()));
  });
});

and then checking the karma output in your console or browser. It should be something like:

LOG: 'jasmine-version:'
LOG: '2.3.4'

The jasmine library is included in the jasmine-runner plugin as you've already found out. You can find the exact place where this file is loaded in the source code of the plugin: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma-jasmine/blob/master/lib/index.js (line 7)

You can try to modify the plugin so that an upgrade is possible and send a pull request to karma (see http://karma-runner.github.io/0.10/dev/contributing.html)

Upvotes: 30

AliR
AliR

Reputation: 2085

It a better option to stick to the jasmine version in karma-jasmine and update the whole package. You can use the following command to get the version of all the installed packages:

  npm ls

To get the version of the installed global packages:

  npm ls -g

To view the latest version available on CDN, use:

  npm view karma-jasmine version

Before updating, you can view all versions at the CDN using:

  npm view karma-jasmine versions

To install a specific version:

  npm install karma-jasmine@~0.2.2

(0.2.2 is the latest available).

Upvotes: 15

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