From f79d99d2721be515eeb855714a51fe94befa65de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Eyton-Williams <ojeytonwilliams@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:56:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(curriculum): use projects for curriculum tests
 (#64657)

---
 curriculum/package.json               | 5 ++++-
 curriculum/src/test/vitest.config.mjs | 6 +++---
 curriculum/vitest.config.mjs          | 2 +-
 curriculum/vitest.tooling.config.mjs  | 7 +++++++
 package.json                          | 4 ++--
 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 curriculum/vitest.tooling.config.mjs

diff --git a/curriculum/package.json b/curriculum/package.json
index 5ecfc7695a4..31ad9fff23e 100644
--- a/curriculum/package.json
+++ b/curriculum/package.json
@@ -38,8 +38,11 @@
     "reorder-tasks": "CALLING_DIR=$INIT_CWD tsx --tsconfig ../tsconfig.json ../tools/challenge-helper-scripts/reorder-tasks",
     "update-challenge-order": "CALLING_DIR=$INIT_CWD tsx --tsconfig ../tsconfig.json ../tools/challenge-helper-scripts/update-challenge-order",
     "update-step-titles": "CALLING_DIR=$INIT_CWD tsx --tsconfig ../tsconfig.json ../tools/challenge-helper-scripts/update-step-titles",
+    "test": "NODE_OPTIONS='--max-old-space-size=7168' pnpm test-gen && vitest run",
+    "test:watch": "pnpm test-gen && vitest",
     "test-gen": "tsx ./src/test/utils/generate-block-tests.ts",
-    "test": "NODE_OPTIONS='--max-old-space-size=7168' pnpm -s test-gen && vitest -c src/test/vitest.config.mjs"
+    "test-tooling": "pnpm test --project @freecodecamp/curriculum",
+    "test-content": "pnpm test --project test"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "7.23.7",
diff --git a/curriculum/src/test/vitest.config.mjs b/curriculum/src/test/vitest.config.mjs
index 97988cea0d5..62b7695c295 100644
--- a/curriculum/src/test/vitest.config.mjs
+++ b/curriculum/src/test/vitest.config.mjs
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
 
 export default defineConfig({
   test: {
-    include: ['src/test/blocks-generated/**/*.test.js'],
+    include: ['blocks-generated/**/*.test.js'],
     environment: 'node',
     hookTimeout: 60000,
     testTimeout: 30000,
     isolate: false,
-    globalSetup: 'src/test/vitest-global-setup.mjs',
-    setupFiles: 'src/test/vitest-setup.mjs'
+    globalSetup: 'vitest-global-setup.mjs',
+    setupFiles: 'vitest-setup.mjs'
   }
 });
diff --git a/curriculum/vitest.config.mjs b/curriculum/vitest.config.mjs
index 9439a0f82b9..6fd4d371113 100644
--- a/curriculum/vitest.config.mjs
+++ b/curriculum/vitest.config.mjs
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
 
 export default defineConfig({
   test: {
-    exclude: ['src/test/blocks-generated/**/*.test.js', 'dist']
+    projects: ['vitest.tooling.config.mjs', 'src/test/vitest.config.mjs']
   }
 });
diff --git a/curriculum/vitest.tooling.config.mjs b/curriculum/vitest.tooling.config.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..253bde474c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/curriculum/vitest.tooling.config.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config';
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  test: {
+    exclude: ['src/test/blocks-generated/**/*.test.js', 'dist', 'node_modules']
+  }
+});
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d4867932b4c..b6e86de24e2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@
     "test:tools:challenge-helper-scripts": "cd ./tools/challenge-helper-scripts && pnpm test run",
     "test:tools:scripts-lint": "cd ./tools/scripts/lint && pnpm test run",
     "test:tools:challenge-parser": "cd ./tools/challenge-parser && pnpm test run",
-    "test:curriculum:content": "cd ./curriculum && pnpm test run",
-    "test:curriculum:tooling": "cd ./curriculum && pnpm vitest run",
+    "test:curriculum:content": "cd ./curriculum && pnpm test-content",
+    "test:curriculum:tooling": "cd ./curriculum && pnpm test-tooling",
     "test:shared": "cd ./shared && pnpm vitest run",
     "test:client": "cd ./client && pnpm test run",
     "prepare": "husky",