LEDMatrix/test/js/README.md

Web-interface JS tests

Covers web_interface/static/v3/js/plugins/list_filter.js (the shared search/filter/sort controller) and the plugin-manager grids that use it: Installed Plugins, the Plugin Store, and Starlark Apps.

There is no JS toolchain in this repo, so these are plain node scripts with no test framework. Each prints ok/FAIL lines and exits non-zero on failure.

Running

cd test/js
npm install                 # jsdom, for the DOM suites only
node run_all.js

The unit suites need nothing but node. The DOM suites additionally need a running web interface, because they test against the real server-rendered HTML and the real API rather than fixtures:

# in another shell, from the repo root
EMULATOR=true python3 web_interface/app.py         # http://localhost:5000

# or point the suites at a device
BASE=http://10.0.10.169:5000 node run_all.js

run_all.js skips the DOM suites (rather than failing) when jsdom is missing or nothing is listening, so it stays useful in a bare checkout.

The suites

Suite	Needs a server	Covers
unit/test_list_filter.js	no	ListFilter search/filter/sort/count/sticky, and the installed-plugins config extracted verbatim from plugins_manager.js so the test can't drift from it
unit/test_render_cards.js	no	renderInstalledCards markup, both empty states, and HTML-escaping of hostile plugin metadata
unit/test_style_editor_element_keys.js	no	elementKeys() from widgets/style-editor.js: a hand-written customization.layout entry with no style block of its own still gets a row, since the widget claims the whole layout block from the generic fallback renderer
dom/test_installed_dom.js	yes	The toolbar in a real DOM: pill/search/sort interaction, the HTMX partial re-swap, and a getComputedStyle check that .filter-pill[data-active] really matches the emitted markup
dom/test_store_dom.js	yes	Store pagination, per-page, category, tri-state Installed button, and persistence across a re-boot, against the live registry
dom/test_no_double_fetch.js	yes	Loads the whole plugins_manager.js and counts requests: typing in the store search must filter the cached list, not refetch /api/v3/plugins/store/list
dom/test_tools_sections.js	yes	The Tools tab's MQTT bridge and Pixlet editor sections: form prefill, the write-only password (blank means unchanged), the running-session banner and countdown, and that the editor link points at the host you loaded the page from

Point the DOM suites at a rig with a full plugin set when it matters — a dev box with two plugins installed will pass while exercising very little.

Notes for whoever changes this next

• The suites read the shipped files off disk and, for the DOM ones, the partial from the running server. They do not keep their own copy of the markup, so renaming an element id will fail them loudly rather than silently pass.
• unit/test_list_filter.js evals a slice of plugins_manager.js located by the text function installedSortName(plugin). If that function is renamed, fix the slice markers rather than pasting a copy of the config into the test.
• A few assertions exist specifically to stop earlier bugs coming back: trailing spaces surviving the search debounce; a multi-word query that spans two adjacent search fields (field order in the haystack is load-bearing); window.installedPlugins staying at full length while the grid is filtered.
• Watch for assertions that can pass vacuously. Several here deliberately guard against it — e.g. counting only non-skeleton cards, and asserting a search phrase matches something before comparing two results.

The old-vs-new differential suites used to verify that the store and Starlark migrations were behaviour-preserving are not included: they compared against the pre-refactor implementation, which now only exists in git history. See PR #540 if that comparison ever needs redoing.