nihilismus's solution to Hello World on the JavaScript track

Instructions

Test suite

Solution

The classical introductory exercise. Just say "Hello, World!".

"Hello, World!" is the traditional first program for beginning programming in a new language or environment.

The objectives are simple:

Write a function that returns the string "Hello, World!".
Run the test suite and make sure that it succeeds.
Submit your solution and check it at the website.

If everything goes well, you will be ready to fetch your first real exercise.

Setup

Go through the setup instructions for Javascript to install the necessary dependencies:

https://exercism.io/tracks/javascript/installation

Requirements

Please cd into exercise directory before running all below commands.

Install assignment dependencies:

$ npm install

Making the test suite pass

Execute the tests with:

$ npm test

In the test suites all tests but the first have been skipped.

Once you get a test passing, you can enable the next one by changing xtest to test.

Submitting Solutions

Once you have a solution ready, you can submit it using:

exercism submit hello-world.js

Submitting Incomplete Solutions

It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.

Exercise Source Credits

This is an exercise to introduce users to using Exercism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_world!%22_program

hello-world.spec.js

import { hello } from './hello-world';

describe('Hello World', () => {
  test('Say Hi!', () => {
    expect(hello()).toEqual('Hello, World!');
  });
});

export const hello = () => {
  return 'Hello, World!';
};

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