Get pass/fail as return value rather than printing to stdout?

[Pomax]

Is there a way to get chai to simply return a true/false rather than printing anything to the console? I had a look at the docs on the website but couldn't find anything obvious about configuring chai's behaviour.

(And if there is, could that be added as a section on the "getting started" part of the site?)

[43081j]

i think you would need to try/catch the assertion yourself

assertions throw by design just like in node:assert and similar

so you'd have to have a wrapper around it that does this:

function assertWithoutThrow(assertion) {
  try {
    assertion();
    return true;
  } catch {
    return false;
  }
}

assertWithoutThrow(() => {
  assert.ok(false);
});

[koddsson]

Sounds like this is resolved! Feel free to comment again/reopen if not @Pomax 👍🏻

[Pomax]

I don't know if it's worth reopening over, but it would be nice if this advice were "easily" findable somewhere in the docs too, so that others won't end up filing a new issue again (as closed issues often don't surface on web searches etc)