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Istanbul's state of the art command line interface, with support for:
* applications that spawn subprocesses.
* ES2015 transforms, via [babel-plugin-istanbul](https://github.com/istanbuljs/babel-plugin-istanbul), or source-maps.
## Instrumenting your code
You can install nyc as a development dependency and add it to the test stanza
in your package.json.
```shell
npm i nyc --save-dev
```
```json
{
"script": {
"test": "nyc mocha"
}
}
```
Alternatively, you can install nyc globally and use it to execute `npm test`:
```shell
npm i nyc -g
```
```shell
nyc npm test
```
nyc accepts a wide variety of configuration arguments, run `nyc --help` for
thorough documentation.
Configuration arguments should be provided prior to the program that nyc
is executing. As an example, the following command executes `npm test`,
and indicates to nyc that it should output both an `lcov`
and a `text-lcov` coverage report.
```shell
nyc --reporter=lcov --reporter=text-lcov npm test
```
### Accurate stack traces using source maps
When `produce-source-map` is set to true, then the instrumented source files will
include inline source maps for the instrumenter transform. When combined with
[source-map-support](https://github.com/evanw/node-source-map-support),
stack traces for instrumented code will reflect their original lines.
### Support for custom require hooks (babel, webpack, etc.)
nyc supports custom require hooks like
[`babel-register`](http://babeljs.io/docs/usage/require/). nyc can
load the hooks for you, [using the `--require`
flag](#require-additional-modules).
Source maps are used to map coverage information back to the appropriate lines
of the pre-transpiled code. You'll have to configure your custom require hook
to inline the source map in the transpiled code. For Babel that means setting
the `sourceMaps` option to `inline`.
## Use with `babel-plugin-istanbul` for Babel Support
We recommend using [`babel-plugin-istanbul`](https://github.com/istanbuljs/babel-plugin-istanbul) if your
project uses the babel tool chain:
1. enable the `babel-plugin-istanbul` plugin:
```json
{
"babel": {
"presets": ["es2015"],
"env": {
"test": {
"plugins": ["istanbul"]
}
}
}
}
```
Note: With this configuration, the Istanbul instrumentation will only be active when `NODE_ENV` or `BABEL_ENV` is `test`.
We recommend using the [`cross-env`](https://npmjs.com/package/cross-env) package to set these environment variables
in your `package.json` scripts in a way that works cross-platform.
2. disable nyc's instrumentation and source-maps, e.g. in `package.json`:
```json
{
"nyc": {
"require": [
"babel-register"
],
"sourceMap": false,
"instrument": false
},
"scripts": {
"test": "cross-env NODE_ENV=test nyc mocha"
}
}
```
That's all there is to it, better ES2015+ syntax highlighting awaits:
## Support for alternate file extensions (.jsx, .es6)
Supporting file extensions can be configured through either the configuration arguments or with the `nyc` config section in `package.json`.
```shell
nyc --extension .jsx --extension .es6 npm test
```
```json
{
"nyc": {
"extension": [
".jsx",
".es6"
]
}
}
```
## Checking coverage
nyc can fail tests if coverage falls below a threshold.
After running your tests with nyc, simply run:
```shell
nyc check-coverage --lines 95 --functions 95 --branches 95
```
nyc also accepts a `--check-coverage` shorthand, which can be used to
both run tests and check that coverage falls within the threshold provided:
```shell
nyc --check-coverage --lines 100 npm test
```
The above check fails if coverage falls below 100%.
To check thresholds on a per-file basis run:
```shell
nyc check-coverage --lines 95 --per-file
```
## Running reports
Once you've run your tests with nyc, simply run:
```bash
nyc report
```
To view your coverage report:
you can use [any reporters that are supported by `istanbul`](https://github.com/istanbuljs/istanbuljs/tree/master/packages/istanbul-reports/lib):
```bash
nyc report --reporter=lcov
```
## Excluding files
You can tell nyc to exclude specific files and directories by adding
an `nyc.exclude` array to your `package.json`. Each element of
the array is a glob pattern indicating which paths should be omitted.
Globs are matched using [micromatch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/micromatch).
For example, the following config will exclude any files with the extension `.spec.js`,
and anything in the `build` directory:
```json
{
"nyc": {
"exclude": [
"**/*.spec.js",
"build"
]
}
}
```
> Note: Since version 9.0 files under `node_modules/` are excluded by default.
add the exclude rule `!**/node_modules/` to stop this.
> Note: exclude defaults to `['test', 'test{,-*}.js', '**/*.test.js', '**/__tests__/**', '**/node_modules/**']`,
which would exclude `test`/`__tests__` directories as well as `test.js`, `*.test.js`,
and `test-*.js` files. Specifying your own exclude property overrides these defaults.
## Including files
As an alternative to providing a list of files to `exclude`, you can provide
an `include` key with a list of globs to specify specific files that should be covered:
```json
{
"nyc": {
"include": ["**/build/umd/moment.js"]
}
}
```
> Note: include defaults to `['**']`
> ### Use the `--all` flag to include files that have not been required in your tests.
## Require additional modules
The `--require` flag can be provided to `nyc` to indicate that additional
modules should be required in the subprocess collecting coverage:
`nyc --require babel-register --require babel-polyfill mocha`
## Caching
You can run `nyc` with the optional `--cache` flag, to prevent it from
instrumenting the same files multiple times. This can significantly
improve runtime performance.
## Configuring `nyc`
Any configuration options that can be set via the command line can also be specified in the `nyc` stanza of your package.json, or within a `.nycrc` file:
**package.json:**
```json
{
"description": "These are just examples for demonstration, nothing prescriptive",
"nyc": {
"check-coverage": true,
"per-file": true,
"lines": 99,
"statements": 99,
"functions": 99,
"branches": 99,
"include": [
"src/**/*.js"
],
"exclude": [
"src/**/*.spec.js"
],
"reporter": [
"lcov",
"text-summary"
],
"require": [
"./test/helpers/some-helper.js"
],
"extension": [
".jsx"
],
"cache": true,
"all": true,
"report-dir": "./alternative"
}
}
```
### Publish, and reuse, your nyc configuration
nyc allows you to inherit other configurations using the key `extends`. As an example,
an alternative way to configure nyc for `babel-plugin-istanbul` would be to use the
[@istanbuljs/nyc-config-babel preset](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@istanbuljs/nyc-config-babel):
```json
{
"nyc": {
"extends": "@istanbuljs/nyc-config-babel"
}
}
```
To publish and resuse your own `nyc` configuration, simply create an npm module that
exports an `index.json` with your `nyc` config.
## High and low watermarks
Several of the coverage reporters supported by nyc display special information
for high and low watermarks:
* high-watermarks represent healthy test coverage (in many reports
this is represented with green highlighting).
* low-watermarks represent sub-optimal coverage levels (in many reports
this is represented with red highlighting).
You can specify custom high and low watermarks in nyc's configuration:
```json
{
"nyc": {
"watermarks": {
"lines": [80, 95],
"functions": [80, 95],
"branches": [80, 95],
"statements": [80, 95]
}
}
}
```
## Other advanced features
Take a look at http://istanbul.js.org/docs/advanced/ and please feel free to [contribute documentation](https://github.com/istanbuljs/istanbuljs.github.io/tree/development/content).
## Integrating with coveralls
[coveralls.io](https://coveralls.io) is a great tool for adding
coverage reports to your GitHub project. Here's how to get nyc
integrated with coveralls and travis-ci.org:
1. add the coveralls and nyc dependencies to your module:
```shell
npm install coveralls nyc --save-dev
```
2. update the scripts in your package.json to include these bins:
```json
{
"script": {
"test": "nyc mocha",
"coverage": "nyc report --reporter=text-lcov | coveralls"
}
}
```
3. For private repos, add the environment variable `COVERALLS_REPO_TOKEN` to travis.
4. add the following to your `.travis.yml`:
```yaml
after_success: npm run coverage
```
That's all there is to it!
> Note: by default coveralls.io adds comments to pull-requests on GitHub, this can feel intrusive. To disable this, click on your repo on coveralls.io and uncheck `LEAVE COMMENTS?`.
## Integrating with codecov
`nyc npm test && nyc report --reporter=text-lcov > coverage.lcov && codecov`
[codecov](https://codecov.io/) is a great tool for adding
coverage reports to your GitHub project, even viewing them inline on GitHub with a browser extension:
Here's how to get `nyc` integrated with codecov and travis-ci.org:
1. add the codecov and nyc dependencies to your module:
```shell
npm install codecov nyc --save-dev
```
2. update the scripts in your package.json to include these bins:
```json
{
"script": {
"test": "nyc tap ./test/*.js",
"coverage": "nyc report --reporter=text-lcov > coverage.lcov && codecov"
}
}
```
3. For private repos, add the environment variable `CODECOV_TOKEN` to travis.
4. add the following to your `.travis.yml`:
```yaml
after_success: npm run coverage
```
That's all there is to it!
## Integrating with TAP formatters
Many testing frameworks (Mocha, Tape, Tap, etc.) can produce [TAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol) output. [tap-nyc](https://github.com/MegaArman/tap-nyc) is a TAP formatter designed to look nice with nyc.
## More tutorials
You can find more tutorials at http://istanbul.js.org/docs/tutorials