Standalone and test framework agnostic JavaScript test spies, stubs and mocks (pronounced "sigh-non", named after Sinon, the warrior).
For details on compatibility and browser support, please see COMPATIBILITY.md
via npm
$ npm install sinon
or via Sinon's browser build, shipped in the package's pkg/ directory and served by
npm based CDNs such as jsDelivr and
unpkg.
See the sinon project homepage for documentation on usage.
If you have questions that are not covered by the documentation, you can check out the sinon tag on Stack Overflow.
- No global pollution
- Easy to use
- Require minimal “integration”
- Easy to embed seamlessly with any testing framework
- Easily fake any interface
- Ship with ready-to-use fakes for timers
See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how you can contribute to Sinon.JS. Artifact-first contract tests are used to protect public APIs during migration.
The lib/ directory is generated build output and is not committed to the repository; run npm run build to regenerate it locally when needed.
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Sinon.js was released under BSD-3