Beautiful Seamless JavaScript Testing in 10 Minutes

As a developer, it’s not often that you run across software that instantly changes the way you work, but last night I found a new and as of yet relatively unknown package that for me did just that. Enter Wallaby.js, the little Atom package (plugins available for IntelliJ & Visual Studio at a fairly steep price) that promises to provide live testing and code coverage in your editor as you type. The video on their site looks pretty impressive, but given the *cough*hideous*cough* look of their site, the fact that it’s in beta, has a whopping 200 downloads, and knowing first-hand how complicated implementing something like can be — let’s just say I was a bit skeptical at first. After I did install it the lack of decent documentation on how to get it to work and the random errors after I do exactly what it told me to don’t exactly instill confidence! But skip past all that and here we are: