List of JavaScript Kata to Update - codewars/content-issues GitHub Wiki

This page lists JavaScript kata still stuck in Node 8.x. It's not grouped in any way at the moment.

Any help is appreciated, but I'm still looking for ways to automate common fixes. jscodeshift can be used to transform the code (see example). If you come up with a codemod, please create a similar demo on AST explorer and let me know on https://github.com/codewars/runner/issues/119. That issue also includes some background information.

Since Node 10.x, we've been using Mocha instead of the custom test framework. There are some required changes related to this.

The test structure must be describe -> it -> assertions or it -> assertions (i.e., assertions must be inside it, and it cannot be nested). Grouping related tests with describe is preferred if there are many test cases. Note that tests with an invalid test structure might still look valid in the output panel. Automated updates have skipped over those with invalid structure.
Test case callback passed to it is no longer immediately executed. This can be tricky to notice.
- To avoid common issue with closure within a loop, all var within all tests have been upated to let when possible (if tests passed after the change).
Test case defined with a callback. Some authors likes to write it("test", _ => {}) which creates a asynchronous test (it("test", (done) => { doStuff().on("end", done); })). Most of these have been fixed.
Old assertions are still available in Node 10. It's also available in Node 12 with const Test = require("@codewars/test-compat");. Updating to Chai assertions can be done later with codemod, so it can be skipped.

Use the new "Fork" feature to update kata:

You don't need to open an issue/suggestion and wait to edit. Forking a kata in a language is similar to forking an approved translation, but better because

all languages can be forked, including those added directly in Kata Editor and the original language
it's never outdated because it forks from the kata

You should see "Fork" when viewing a kata with the language you've completed in selected. Click that to open a translation editor with the current version filled in. The proposed changes can be merged or rejected after publishing, just like translations.

Notes

Native `BigInt`s in Node

Native BigInts are available in Node 10.x. JS versions of all BigInt katas (arithmetic operations to numbers represented as strings) should be removed once Node 8.x is deprecated in the future.

Though they should've been removed already anyway since bignumber.js is installed in the environment, which means require would have to be disabled. Which does nothing anyway because people can just copy the entire minified source code from the bignumber.js repo into their solution, and things go out of hand very quickly with this.

List of Node 12.x Kata

The following failed to upgrade to Node 14.x/18.x automatically.

List of Node 10.x kata

The following failed to update automatically by prepending const Test = require('@codewars/test-compat'); to tests.