Mocha describe is not defined

Question

I have a directory called MochaTests. Inside there I have the example test found on the mocha website "1.2.3 Mocha". At the command prompt (My OS is WIN7), I type in Mocha, and the result is 0 passing(2 m2). I installed just like the instructions say: npm install -g mocha from what I can tell it installs just fine

So, in c:\MochaTests> I type node then I type .load test1.js I get

ReferenceError: describe is not defined.

On the nodejs googlegroup there is a post dated 2012-12-24 that is titled "describe is not defined"... they claims this "solved my problems", but did not provide any details about what he did to clear up this error.

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-25T17:29:53.560

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tl;dr

You'll want to run mocha instead of node:

Install Mocha (globally)

npm install mocha -g

Then, run mocha

mocha

OLD (the post has since been removed):

This post says to use mocha instead of node in your command which works for me:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.nodejs/58313

edited Oct 25 '17 at 17:29

answered Dec 05 '13 at 08:18

Chris

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Thanks @Chris. What if I want to run the tests via node. Is this possible? How? – urig May 03 '15 at 18:58
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For using node instead of mocha, someone else had an answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/33222730/2246213 – Jeff Clayton Jun 03 '16 at 13:20
Have tried many alternates got from internet but getting the same error. – Anita Mehta May 25 '17 at 07:26
This answer is nothing but a broken link – Kickaha Oct 25 '17 at 16:16
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@Kickaha - thanks for pointing that out. I updated it with the solution. I just didn't want to poach a solution from another site when I posted that a few years ago. – Chris Oct 25 '17 at 19:21

Mocha describe is not defined

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Install Mocha (globally)

Then, run mocha

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