chore: add Node.js v24 to CI workflow

[danielpeintner]

resolves #1373

[danielpeintner]

It seems node-mbus seems to cause issues

EDIT: opened Apollon77/node-mbus#134

[danielpeintner]

We seem to run into a similar issue as mentioned in mochajs/mocha#5317

[danielpeintner]

I think the issue has to do with @testdeck/mocha were we are using an old version. Anyhow, switching to the latest version 0.3.3 which is already 3 years old doesn't help either.

Once I start adding a test with "suite" I get the following message

SyntaxError: Named export 'suite' not found. The requested module '@testdeck/mocha' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports.
CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:

import pkg from '@testdeck/mocha';
const { suite } = pkg;

or messages like

Exception during run: SyntaxError[ @d:\projects\WoT\thingweb\thingweb.node-wot-danielpeintner\packages\core\test\ClientTest.ts ]: Invalid or unexpected token
at compileSourceTextModule (node:internal/modules/esm/utils:351:16)
at ModuleLoader.moduleStrategy (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:107:18)
at ModuleLoader. (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:608:10)
at ModuleLoader.#translate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:546:12)
at ModuleLoader.loadAndTranslate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:593:27)
at async ModuleJob.#link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:180:19)

Other test pass. Any proposal?

I am wondering whether we should remove @testdeck/mocha entirely
and switch to the assert test style

import { assert } from 'chai';

describe("Foo Tests", () => {
   it("should fooABC", () => {
      const result = ...;
      assert.equal(result, 5);
   });
});

[danielpeintner]

The @testdeck/mocha dependency seems no longer providing updates (last update was Dec 2025).

We currently use it in some test in the following packages

• binding-coap (3 test files)
• binding-http (7 test files)
• binding-websockets (1 test file)
• cli (1 test file)
• core (9 test files)

Shall we make the effort to update those tests, or what is the best way forward?

Any other opinions? Maybe there is an easier fix 🤷‍♂️

[danielpeintner]

I created testdeck/testdeck#391