Run truffle test without recompile every time?

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Is there a way to run truffle test and not recompile the solidity code each time? It takes a lot of time if i just want to play around with the javascript tests...

Thanks!

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '20 at 07:53

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Since January 2020 Truffle suite has option --compile-none

With this option enabled it tests compiled contracts from build/contracts directory.

Here is how it looks like in Truffle v5.1.55:

PS D:\work\ERC20> truffle test  --compile-none                        
Using network 'test'.
Compiling your contracts...
> Everything is up to date, there is nothing to compile.

answered Dec 11 '20 at 07:53

Pak Uula

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Thank you, this should be marked as the correct answer. – vallard Apr 24 '21 at 06:13

Paul Razvan Berg · Answer 2 · 2018-12-11T11:18:23.073

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This is a known issue with truffle. As of Nov 2018 and the latest version 4.1.14, there is no out-of-the-box solution. There is a workaround, albeit a bit messy:

Create an empty folder called migrations_null and then run your tests like this:

truffle test --migrations_directory migrations_null

edited Dec 11 '18 at 11:18

answered Nov 23 '18 at 13:51

Paul Razvan Berg

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It only solves the problem with migration, but then I don't have an access to my contracts. It says that they were not deployed. It will still compile all contracts. – Rob Magier Feb 03 '19 at 23:01

Run truffle test without recompile every time?

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Compiling your contracts...