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UltraSonja
UltraSonja

Reputation: 891

Karma and Jasmine installation without npm

I want to use Karma and Jasmine to test my AngularJS application. All of the documentation I've found to install Karma and Jasmine involve using npm. I can't use npm because I am restricted, the reason doesn't matter. So far I have pulled Jasmine and Karma from Github using zip files. I want to add Karma and Jasmine to my project, but I don't think unzipping the entire contents of the respective GitHub repos is the way to go.

I'd like to know what I need to make Karma and Jasmine usable within my AngularJS project without using npm.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1493

Answers (1)

Michael Radionov
Michael Radionov

Reputation: 13319

I guess it is possible, but will take a huuuuuge amount of work because of the dependencies. If you take a look at karma's repository, you can find a file package.json (here). In this file there is a property dependencies (link), which lists the modules karma depends on. So you'll have to find their sources, manually download all of them with respective version number and put in the folder called node_modules created in the karma module folder. But each of these modules karma depends on also has dependencies listed in their own package.json - you'll have to download them too keeping in mind version numbers and putting them in module's node_modules folder. And this dependency nesting can be really really deep.

Some modules may have extra scripts to be executed after they have been installed (scripts), which are called by NPM by default on installation. Maybe there are some other things which I am not aware of. Generally speaking it was designed to be installed via NPM and it's rarely the case when someone has no access to use it.

I would advise to ask somebody who has access to NPM to do an install of required packages and share the result of installation with you. Everything will be installed in the node_modules folder of the directory you run NPM commands from, it would be easy to do.

Here you can download version I've created, it has karma v0.13.1, karma-jasmine v0.3.6 and karma-chrome-launcher v0.2.0. I hope it will work for you, because we might have different OS (mine is Ubuntu 14.04 x64), I'm not sure if NPM does something OS-specific while installation of any package.

You should place the content of the archive to your project directory, to execute tests from your project folder use a terminal command:

./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start

I would still advise to solve the problem of accessing the NPM if you want to closely work with modules it stores.

Upvotes: 2

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