How to make chaijs assertions noop (disable assertions)

Question

How to make chaijs assertions noop (disable assertions)

I am using chaijs in a nodejs service & wanted to disable all assertions in the release build to check their perf impact.

Is there any setting to do that?

node.js
chai

Answer 1

One possible way to do that is to set an environment variable to check if the build is a "release" build. If it is, then just don't run the assertions. E.g.:

if (process.env.RELEASE_BUILD) {
    // no assertions
}