pg-boss More modern testing framework?..

Mocha is pretty clunky to work with, and current setup doesn't work well with IDEs.

Have you considered switching to something more modern, like vitest or node:test?

Dec 02 '25 23:12 kibertoad

I evaluated another framework only once in the 10 years that this project has been alive, so I would assume there are far more alternatives to consider than mocha these days. :) Do you have a favorite?

Dec 03 '25 00:12 timgit

@timgit personally I am a big fan of vitest, it has great DX.

Dec 03 '25 08:12 kibertoad

@timgit personally I am a big fan of vitest, it has great DX

Sounds good to me

current setup doesn't work well with IDEs.

What do you mean by this?

Dec 03 '25 16:12 timgit

this:

I'll prepare the vitest switch PR then, but would be nice to land https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss/pull/657 first

Dec 03 '25 16:12 kibertoad

Ah, Webstorm. Is this because mocha doesn't support typescript yet? Regardless, I'm not married to Mocha, so I'm interested in any benefits vitest can provide, having the benefit of being shiny and new.

Dec 03 '25 16:12 timgit