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from slack discussion:

do i go wrong choosing mocha?

1 reply
Volkan Ozcelik [2 minutes ago]
Nope. mocha and jasmine are equally good.

My recommendation for jest is just for the sake of trying out something new and being “on the edge”.

Jest is essentially Jasmine, and Jasmine is as good as Mocha.

So Mocha is a solid choice in itself.

And, to reiterate, framework is not that important: Getting into the “TDD/BDD” mindset is much more important. You can even use Node.js `assert` API ( nodejs.org/api/assert.html ) and there are production application that happily do their tests with the `assert` API without even touching Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, et al.

tl;dr: Go with Mocha, it’s good.