node:test --test with glob patterns and npm can't find files

[dalssoft]

Version

v20.9.0

Platform

Darwin 22.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Mon Apr 24 20:53:19 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.121.2~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

Subsystem

node:test

What steps will reproduce the bug?

• create a subdirectory src/folder1/folder2 and add a file.test.js on it
• add "scripts": { "test": "node --test **/*.test.js", to the package.json
• run npm run test

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

Always

What is the expected behavior? Why is that the expected behavior?

Run the tests.

Running node --test **/*.test.js direct on terminal, without npm, runs just fine.

What do you see instead?

> npm run test                         

   > project1@0.0.1 test
   > node --test **/*.test.js

Could not find '/Users/xyz/Projects/project1/**/*.test.js'

Additional information

No response

[meyfa]

Glob support for the test runner is unfortunately not part of Node.js 20. You need to use Node.js 21. The reason it works in the terminal is that your shell performs the glob. You can verify this by putting the glob pattern in quotes - it should stop working. NPM spawns a child process directly, without going through a shell, so the glob is passed as-is to Node.js, and as I said, v20 cannot handle it.

[cymruu]

Quick solution using the Linux find command to locate test files.

"scripts": {
  "test": "node --import tsx --test $(find . -name \"*.test.ts\")"
}