Configuring Jest
The Jest philosophy is to work great by default, but sometimes you just need more configuration power.
It is recommended to define the configuration in a dedicated JavaScript, TypeScript or JSON file. The file will be discovered automatically, if it is named jest.config.js|ts|mjs|cjs|json
. You can use --config
flag to pass an explicit path to the file.
Keep in mind that the resulting configuration object must always be JSON-serializable.
The configuration file should simply export an object:
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
/** @type {import('jest').Config} */
const config = {
verbose: true,
};
module.exports = config;
import type {Config} from 'jest';
const config: Config = {
verbose: true,
};
export default config;
Or a function returning an object:
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
/** @returns {Promise<import('jest').Config>} */
module.exports = async () => {
return {
verbose: true,
};
};
import type {Config} from 'jest';
export default async (): Promise<Config> => {
return {
verbose: true,
};
};
To read TypeScript configuration files Jest requires ts-node
. Make sure it is installed in your project.
The configuration also can be stored in a JSON file as a plain object:
{
"bail": 1,
"verbose": true
}
Alternatively Jest's configuration can be defined through the "jest"
key in the package.json
of your project:
{
"name": "my-project",
"jest": {
"verbose": true
}
}
Options
You can retrieve Jest's defaults from jest-config
to extend them if needed:
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
const {defaults} = require('jest-config');
/** @type {import('jest').Config} */
const config = {
moduleFileExtensions: [...defaults.moduleFileExtensions, 'mts', 'cts'],
};
module.exports = config;
import type {Config} from 'jest';
import {defaults} from 'jest-config';
const config: Config = {
moduleFileExtensions: [...defaults.moduleFileExtensions, 'mts'],
};
export default config;
automock
[boolean]bail
[number | boolean]cacheDirectory
[string]clearMocks
[boolean]collectCoverage
[boolean]collectCoverageFrom
[array]coverageDirectory
[string]coveragePathIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]coverageProvider
[string]coverageReporters
[array<string | [string, options]>]coverageThreshold
[object]dependencyExtractor
[string]displayName
[string, object]errorOnDeprecated
[boolean]extensionsToTreatAsEsm
[array<string>]fakeTimers
[object]forceCoverageMatch
[array<string>]globals
[object]globalSetup
[string]globalTeardown
[string]haste
[object]injectGlobals
[boolean]maxConcurrency
[number]maxWorkers
[number | string]moduleDirectories
[array<string>]moduleFileExtensions
[array<string>]moduleNameMapper
[object<string, string | array<string>>]modulePathIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]modulePaths
[array<string>]notify
[boolean]notifyMode
[string]openHandlesTimeout
[number]preset
[string]prettierPath
[string]projects
[array<string | ProjectConfig>]randomize
[boolean]reporters
[array<moduleName | [moduleName, options]>]resetMocks
[boolean]resetModules
[boolean]resolver
[string]restoreMocks
[boolean]rootDir
[string]roots
[array<string>]runner
[string]sandboxInjectedGlobals
[array<string>]setupFiles
[array]setupFilesAfterEnv
[array]showSeed
[boolean]slowTestThreshold
[number]snapshotFormat
[object]snapshotResolver
[string]snapshotSerializers
[array<string>]testEnvironment
[string]testEnvironmentOptions
[Object]testFailureExitCode
[number]testMatch
[array<string>]testPathIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]testRegex
[string | array<string>]testResultsProcessor
[string]testRunner
[string]testSequencer
[string]testTimeout
[number]transform
[object<string, pathToTransformer | [pathToTransformer, object]>]transformIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]unmockedModulePathPatterns
[array<string>]verbose
[boolean]watchPathIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]watchPlugins
[array<string | [string, Object]>]watchman
[boolean]workerIdleMemoryLimit
[number|string]//
[string]workerThreads
Reference
automock
[boolean]
Default: false
This option tells Jest that all imported modules in your tests should be mocked automatically. All modules used in your tests will have a replacement implementation, keeping the API surface.
Example:
export default {
authorize: () => 'token',
isAuthorized: secret => secret === 'wizard',
};
import utils from '../utils';
test('if utils mocked automatically', () => {
// Public methods of `utils` are now mock functions
expect(utils.authorize.mock).toBeTruthy();
expect(utils.isAuthorized.mock).toBeTruthy();
// You can provide them with your own implementation
// or pass the expected return value
utils.authorize.mockReturnValue('mocked_token');
utils.isAuthorized.mockReturnValue(true);
expect(utils.authorize()).toBe('mocked_token');
expect(utils.isAuthorized('not_wizard')).toBeTruthy();
});
Node modules are automatically mocked when you have a manual mock in place (e.g.: __mocks__/lodash.js
). More info here.
Node.js core modules, like fs
, are not mocked by default. They can be mocked explicitly, like jest.mock('fs')
.
bail
[number | boolean]
Default: 0
By default, Jest runs all tests and produces all errors into the console upon completion. The bail config option can be used here to have Jest stop running tests after n
failures. Setting bail to true
is the same as setting bail to 1
.
cacheDirectory
[string]
Default: "/tmp/<path>"
The directory where Jest should store its cached dependency information.
Jest attempts to scan your dependency tree once (up-front) and cache it in order to ease some of the filesystem churn that needs to happen while running tests. This config option lets you customize where Jest stores that cache data on disk.
clearMocks
[boolean]
Default: false
Automatically clear mock calls, instances, contexts and results before every test. Equivalent to calling jest.clearAllMocks()
before each test. This does not remove any mock implementation that may have been provided.
collectCoverage
[boolean]
Default: false
Indicates whether the coverage information should be collected while executing the test. Because this retrofits all executed files with coverage collection statements, it may significantly slow down your tests.
Jest ships with two coverage providers: babel
(default) and v8
. See the coverageProvider
option for more details.
The babel
and v8
coverage providers use /* istanbul ignore next */
and /* c8 ignore next */
comments to exclude lines from coverage reports, respectively. For more information, you can view the istanbuljs
documentation and the c8
documentation.
collectCoverageFrom
[array]
Default: undefined
An array of glob patterns indicating a set of files for which coverage information should be collected. If a file matches the specified glob pattern, coverage information will be collected for it even if no tests exist for this file and it's never required in the test suite.
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
/** @type {import('jest').Config} */
const config = {
collectCoverageFrom: [
'**/*.{js,jsx}',
'!**/node_modules/**',
'!**/vendor/**',
],
};
module.exports = config;
import type {Config} from 'jest';
const config: Config = {
collectCoverageFrom: [
'**/*.{js,jsx}',
'!**/node_modules/**',
'!**/vendor/**',
],
};
export default config;
This will collect coverage information for all the files inside the project's rootDir
, except the ones that match **/node_modules/**
or **/vendor/**
.
Each glob pattern is applied in the order they are specified in the config. For example ["!**/__tests__/**", "**/*.js"]
will not exclude __tests__
because the negation is overwritten with the second pattern. In order to make the negated glob work in this example it has to come after **/*.js
.
This option requires collectCoverage
to be set to true
or Jest to be invoked with --coverage
.
Help:
If you are seeing coverage output such as...
=============================== Coverage summary ===============================
Statements : Unknown% ( 0/0 )
Branches : Unknown% ( 0/0 )
Functions : Unknown% ( 0/0 )
Lines : Unknown% ( 0/0 )
================================================================================
Jest: Coverage data for global was not found.
Most likely your glob patterns are not matching any files. Refer to the micromatch documentation to ensure your globs are compatible.
coverageDirectory
[string]
Default: undefined
The directory where Jest should output its coverage files.
coveragePathIgnorePatterns
[array<string>]
Default: ["/node_modules/"]
An array of regexp pattern strings that are matched against all file paths before executing the test. If the file path matches any of the patterns, coverage information will be skipped.
These pattern strings match against the full path. Use the <rootDir>
string token to include the path to your project's root directory to prevent it from accidentally ignoring all of your files in different environments that may have different root directories. Example: ["<rootDir>/build/", "<rootDir>/node_modules/"]
.
coverageProvider
[string]
Indicates which provider should be used to instrument code for coverage. Allowed values are babel
(default) or v8
.
coverageReporters
[array<string | [string, options]>]
Default: ["clover", "json", "lcov", "text"]
A list of reporter names that Jest uses when writing coverage reports. Any istanbul reporter can be used.
Setting this option overwrites the default values. Add "text"
or "text-summary"
to see a coverage summary in the console output.
Additional options can be passed using the tuple form. For example, you may hide coverage report lines for all fully-covered files:
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
/** @type {import('jest').Config} */
const config = {
coverageReporters: ['clover', 'json', 'lcov', ['text', {skipFull: true}]],
};
module.exports = config;