I am attempting to work on the Content Creators Contracting project in the create a back end app with javascript career path. https://www.codecademy.com/paths/create-a-back-end-app-with-javascript/tracks/bapi-javascript-conditionals-and-functions/modules/developing-javascript-apps-locally/informationals/bapi-p0-content-creators
The instructions for this project are AWFUL. Due to the mention of testing and of Mocha and Chai in the article directly preceding this project, I followed the link (that codecademy provided) to the documentation, and went down to the “getting started” section and began installing mocha myself. https://mochajs.org/ I have run npm install mocha, and I even opened a test file and added the code it told me to, the next step has me baffled.
it says “Back in the terminal” and gives you a file path, but the last part of that file path isnt actually a directory, its just a file, so you can’t navigate into it in the terminal??? And what is it they are wanting me to do? How am I supposed to code in the terminal where code is indented and on different lines? I am absolutely befuddled as to what they are asking me to do. I am assuming they want me to add code to the file, but how am I supposed to do that from the terminal? And why wasn’t that just included in that file already? it mentions a package.json file as well, is that the file one director up or do I make it? These instructions are so unclear!!!
speaking of unclear instructions, am I even supposed to be installing this manually? According to this post about the project Content Creator Contracting Project Help - How to start
running npm install from the root directory of the project gives you everything you need, aside from clear instructions, of course. So if I have already manually installed mocha using npm install mocha, do I need to somehow delete that before running npm install on the project file? I’m pretty much ready to throw my laptop out of my window with the amount of questions and confusion this project has created. For example, there are mocha files in the npm file deep within the file system that exists within the users/myname etc etc. My project file exists on my c drive, outside of the users directory, is that going to cause a problem when I try running mocha on a file that exists in a different scope? If I need to delete the first installation in order to install using npm install on the project directory how do I even do that?