Karma - Installation (original) (raw)

Karma runs on Node.js and is available as an NPM package.

Installing Node.js or iojs #

There are node.js or iojs for both Mac and Windows. On Linux, we recommend using NVM.

Note:

Karma works on the three latest stable versions of node. That is 0.8.x, 0.10.x and 0.12.x at this point. Also works on iojs 2.x.x.

Installing Karma and plugins #

The recommended approach is to install Karma (and all the plugins your project needs) locally in the project's directory.

# Install Karma:
$ npm install karma --save-dev

# Install plugins that your project needs:
$ npm install karma-jasmine karma-chrome-launcher --save-dev

This will install karma, karma-jasmine and karma-chrome-launcher packages into node_modules in your current working directory and also save these as devDependencies in package.json, so that any other developer working on the project will only have to do npm install in order to get all these dependencies installed.

# Run Karma:
$ ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start

Commandline Interface #

Typing ./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start sucks and so you might find it useful to install karma-cli globally.

$ npm install -g karma-cli

Then, you can run Karma simply by karma from anywhere and it will always run the local version.