How to run jasmine tests without browser ?

Here is how I did it.

$ npm --version
3.10.6
$ ng --version
angular-cli: 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.8
node: 6.4.0
os: darwin x64

npm i --save-dev karma-phantomjs-launcher

Then I modified the plugins property of the karma.conf.js file, adding the PhantomJS plugin to the list. Also add PhantomJS to the browsers property.

plugins: [
    require( 'karma-jasmine' ),
    require( 'karma-chrome-launcher' ),
    require( 'karma-phantomjs-launcher' ),
    require( 'karma-remap-istanbul' ),
    require( 'angular-cli/plugins/karma' )
],
...
browsers: [ 'PhantomJS', 'Chrome' ],

Since you want a completely headless experience, you can remove Chrome from the browsers property, and remove the karma-chrome-launcher from the plugins array as well.

Hi all,

For me it’s still not working. I’ve followed all these steps as well.

1. Install phantomjs:

npm install --save-dev phantomjs phantomjs-prebuilt karma-phantomjs-launcher

2. Add import to karma.conf.js:

require('karma-phantomjs-launcher'),

(...)

browsers: ['PhantomJS'],

3. Install intl

npm install --save-dev intl

4. Uncomment polyfills’ imports:

import 'core-js/es6/symbol';
import 'core-js/es6/object';
import 'core-js/es6/string';
import 'core-js/es6/array';

import 'intl';  // Run `npm install --save intl`.

5. Target for es5 instead of es6 in tsconfig.spec.json:

"target": "es5",

But still doesn’t work. I receive this from running: ng test --browsers PhantomJS --watch=false

Already tried to increase the timeout value but there is no difference.

Does anybody know if I’m skipping some steps here?

Thanks so much in advance.