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# Architecture Overview
## Project Structure
This project integrates tstest with tapbundle through a modular architecture:
1. **tstest** (`/ts/`) - The test runner that discovers and executes test files
2. **tapbundle** (`/ts_tapbundle/`) - The TAP testing framework for writing tests
3. **tapbundle_node** (`/ts_tapbundle_node/`) - Node.js-specific testing utilities
## How Components Work Together
### Test Execution Flow
1. **CLI Entry Point** (`cli.js` <20> `cli.ts.js` <20> `cli.child.ts`)
- The CLI uses tsx to run TypeScript files directly
- Accepts glob patterns to find test files
- Supports options like `--verbose`, `--quiet`, `--web`
2. **Test Discovery**
- tstest scans for test files matching the provided pattern
- Defaults to `test/**/*.ts` when no pattern is specified
- Supports both file and directory modes
3. **Test Runner**
- Each test file imports `tap` and `expect` from tapbundle
- Tests are written using `tap.test()` with async functions
- Browser tests are compiled with esbuild and run in Chromium via Puppeteer
### Key Integration Points
1. **Import Structure**
- Test files import from local tapbundle: `import { tap, expect } from '../../ts_tapbundle/index.js'`
- Node-specific tests also import from tapbundle_node: `import { tapNodeTools } from '../../ts_tapbundle_node/index.js'`
2. **WebHelpers**
- Browser tests can use webhelpers for DOM manipulation
- `webhelpers.html` - Template literal for creating HTML strings
- `webhelpers.fixture` - Creates DOM elements from HTML strings
- Automatically detects browser environment and only enables in browser context
3. **Build System**
- Uses `tsbuild tsfolders` to compile TypeScript
- Maintains separate output directories: `/dist_ts/`, `/dist_ts_tapbundle/`, `/dist_ts_tapbundle_node/`
- Compilation order is resolved automatically based on dependencies
### Test Scripts
The package.json defines several test scripts:
- `test` - Builds and runs all tests (tapbundle and tstest)
- `test:tapbundle` - Runs tapbundle framework tests
- `test:tstest` - Runs tstest's own tests
- Both support `:verbose` variants for detailed output
### Environment Detection
The framework automatically detects the runtime environment:
- Node.js tests run directly via tsx
- Browser tests are compiled and served via a local server
- WebHelpers are only enabled in browser environment
This architecture allows for seamless testing across both Node.js and browser environments while maintaining a clean separation of concerns.
## Logging System
### Log File Naming (Fixed in v1.9.1)
When using the `--logfile` flag, tstest creates log files in `.nogit/testlogs/`. The log file naming was updated to preserve directory structure and prevent collisions:
- **Old behavior**: `test/tapbundle/test.ts``.nogit/testlogs/test.log`
- **New behavior**: `test/tapbundle/test.ts``.nogit/testlogs/test__tapbundle__test.log`
This fix ensures that test files with the same basename in different directories don't overwrite each other's logs. The implementation:
1. Takes the relative path from the current working directory
2. Replaces path separators (`/`) with double underscores (`__`)
3. Removes the `.ts` extension
4. Creates a flat filename that preserves the directory structure