tap-mocha-reporter(1)

💅 tap-mocha-reporter — the manual page, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to tap-mocha-reporter(1) 🎀 this is the little tool that takes your TAP output and makes it look expensive. it's from the tap-mocha-reporter package (we're on version 5.0.4+~2.1.0, and yes i will be reminding you of that at the end 🌸). sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing this properly.

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✨ NAME ✨

tap-mocha-reporter — format output of tap using a mocha-like reporter 🦋

like. that's the whole job. it reads the tap. it serves looks. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tap-mocha-reporter { --help | reporter }

so you either ask for --help and it tells you what's up, or you hand it a reporter name and it goes to work 💅 that { ... | ... } is doing a little "pick one, bestie" moment.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the vibe: it reads TAP data on stdin 📥 and it formats it to stdout using whichever reporter you named on the command line. that's it. that's the whole personality.

⚠️ tiny lil heads up, and this one is important: some reporters write to files instead of stdout. so don't sit there staring at your terminal wondering where everything went — the output might genuinely be living in a file, not on your screen 😭 (the manpage literally says "Note that some reporters write to files instead of stdout." — i'm not making this up, this is canon.)

it's giving "i pipe things into it and it makes them pretty" energy and honestly? obsessed. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

here are the available reporter format types, in the exact order the manpage lays them out 👑 (i'm presenting them, not decoding them — that's between you and the tool, bestie):

• classic — a reporter format type.
• doc — a reporter format type.
• dot — a reporter format type.
• dump — a reporter format type.
• json — a reporter format type.
• jsonstream — a reporter format type.
• landing — a reporter format type.
• list — a reporter format type.
• markdown — a reporter format type.
• min — a reporter format type.
• nyan — a reporter format type. 🌈 iconic name, no further comment, i'm just saying.
• progress — a reporter format type.
• silent — a reporter format type. 🤫 the way this one just exists.
• spec — a reporter format type.
• tap — a reporter format type.
• xunit — a reporter format type.

that's all sixteen, count 'em, no skips, no cuts 🧚 the manpage doesn't write blurbs for each one, so i'm not gonna invent lore and pretend it's facts — you pick a name, you run it, you find out. iykyk 💜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• tap(1) — go read that one too, bestie 🫶

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that's the whole page, you ate it, no crumbs left 🌟

source + version: tap-mocha-reporter 5.0.4+~2.1.0 💖 and this cutie was dated August 2017 / 24 June 2026 in the footer — page last touched at 24 June 2026, so yeah, she's current, she's maintained, she's thriving ✨ mwah, go format something gorgeous, bye bestie 👑💅