Vue.js 2 Cookbook

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Calling Karma from inside the node_modules directory every time can be annoying. There are two ways to make this more pleasant: we can install Karma globally or we can add Karma to our npm scripts; we'll do both.

First, let's add Karma to our npm scripts. Go inside the package.json file and add the following block:

..."version": "1.0.0",  "scripts": {    "test": "./node_modules/karma/bin/karma start"  },"devDependencies": {...

Now, you can type npm run test and Karma will automatically launch. The next thing we can do is install Karma globally with the following line:

npm install -g karma

Now we can write commands such as karma init and karma start, and they will be recognized. We can also edit our package.json, like this: ...