Istanbul: What is _mocha?

[gajus]

The only way I managed to make istanbul work is using ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha.

# works
babel-node node_modules/.bin/istanbul cover _mocha -- test

# does not work
babel-node node_modules/.bin/istanbul cover mocha -- test

However, it cannot find where it is documented. I have only found it mentioned in issues such as this, https://github.com/gotwarlost/istanbul/issues/44.

[apowers313]

mocha is a wrapper for _mocha -- all the real work happens in _mocha. Here's a link to the Mocha executables code. Maybe that helps?

[gotwarlost]

what @apowers313 said.

[vdegenne]

using ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha instead of ./node_modules/.bin/mocha in the debug properties in vscode helped the debugger to stop at my breakpoints, otherwise it would ignore them. Just wanted to share that information.

[basickarl]

Any update on this? mocha is still broken with breakpoints.