Testing Backbone with JSDOM

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to test backbone using jsdom and nodeunit as the testing framework.

I've got the error: "Error: Calling node's require("text") failed with error: Error: Cannot find module 'text'"

What means, that the context was not able to load requirejs-text plugin.

I've created the DOM context witn:

var assert = require('assert'); 
var fs = require('fs');
var index_html = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/../static/index.html', 'utf-8');
var requirejs = require('requirejs');
var jsdom = require('jsdom');
// require('amdefine/intercept');
var jQuery = require('jquery');

On the test setUp, on trying to open up the backbone view:

exports.setUp = function(callback){
    var document = jsdom.jsdom(index_html);
    var window = document.parentWindow;
    jsdom.getVirtualConsole(window).sendTo(console);

    requirejs.config({ 
      baseUrl: __dirname + '/',
      packages: [{
          name: 'text',
          location: '../node_modules/requirejs-text/text.js ',
          main: 'text.js'
        },
      ],
    });

    requirejs([__dirname + '/../lib/views/stackoverflow.js'], function(bb){
        callback();
    });
};

The exception is raised on before the callback is called. The view that I'm using is just a regular view using requirejs-text to load the template. I've also created a GitHub Repository just to better explain the issue. Just clone it, enter the project dir and type make. It should reproduce all the steps that I've did.

Thanks in advance!

Testing Backbone with JSDOM

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