In this chapter, we will look at various methods of testing our CoffeeScript applications using a variety of techniques and libraries.

For our recipes in this chapter, we will require a lightweight web server. I recommend that you use live-server, a Node-based web service that exposes the local directory as a website.

You can install live-server via NPM using the following command:

npm install -g live-server

Once installed, we can launch the web server using the following command:

live-server