Why I use Tape Instead of Mocha & So Should You

As many of you know, I maintain a popular project called the Essential JavaScript Links collection — a one stop shop to find the best JavaScript resources I know. Once in a while somebody will ask me why I don’t list their favorite thing, or the most popular thing. Sometimes popularity is an indication of quality. Other times, popular things are popular for popularity’s sake, and not because they’re better than alternatives. On real production projects, I have used Jasmine, Mocha, NodeUnit, Tape, and a bunch of other solutions. I have investigated many other options. For the last few years, I have used and continue to use Tape along with Supertest (for API testing) on all of my personal projects and projects that I lead.