Karma not picking the changes, have to run tests twice

Question

I am running Jasmine tests on Karma (latest, 0.12.14) from IntelliJ IDEA (latest, 13.1.2) on OS X.

IntelliJ just uses Karma plugin that points to my karma installation: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/karma

The problem is that Karma watcher doesn't pick new changes from JS files. When I run tests again, everything is fine. It's not a huge issue (they run pretty fast), but it's annyoing to always run tests twice after you do a change.

Anybody experienced similar issue?

Answer 1

Add the following property to your karma.conf.js file:

usePolling: true

I put it after the autoWatch flag.

Reference: AutoWatch doesn't work #895