Babel not working with Mocha and starting Node server - node.js

Question

I am running sailsjs, mocha, and babel on sails and mocha. When I run, my before function to start the sails app before running tests, I get this:
> PORT=9999 NODE_ENV=test mocha --recursive --compilers js:babel/register
lifting sails
1) "before all" hook
0 passing (757ms)
1 failing
1) "before all" hook:
Uncaught Error: only one instance of babel/polyfill is allowed
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make mocha running babel and sails running babel at the same time work.
My before() code looks like this:
import Sails from 'sails'
// Global before hook
before(function (done) {
console.log('lifting sails')
// Lift Sails with test database
Sails.lift({
log: {
level: 'error'
},
models: {
connection: 'testMongoServer',
migrate: 'drop'
},
hooks: {
// sails-hook-babel: false
babel: false
}
}, function(err) {
if (err) {
return done(err);
}
// Anything else you need to set up
// ...
console.log('successfully lifted sails')
done();
});
});

Answer 1

I use sails-hook-babel and it works like a charm. Here to do it:
Install npm install sails-hook-babel --save-dev
Edit your bootstrap.js/ before function to load babel, i.e.
var Sails = require('sails'),
sails;
var options = {
loose : "all",
stage : 2,
ignore : null,
only : null,
extensions: null
};
global.babel = require("sails-hook-babel/node_modules/babel/register")(options);
before(function (done) {
Sails.lift({
//put your test only config here
}, function (err, server) {
sails = server;
if (err) return done(err);
// here you can load fixtures, etc.
done(err, sails);
});
});
after(function (done) {
// here you can clear fixtures, etc.
sails.lower(done);
});
Now you are able to use ES6 within your tests.
Here is the reference:
Babel issue at GitHub
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