The jasmine package is a command line interface and supporting code for running
Jasmine specs under Node.
The core of jasmine lives at https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine and is jasmine-core in npm.
This package allows you to run Jasmine specs for your Node.js code. The output will be displayed in your terminal by default.
https://jasmine.github.io/setup/nodejs.html
Installation:
npm install --save-dev jasmine
To initialize a project for Jasmine:
npx jasmine init
To seed your project with some examples:
npx jasmine examples
To run your test suite:
npx jasmine
Jasmine is compatible with both ES modules and CommonJS modules. See the setup guide for more information.
Jasmine supports Node 20, 22, and 24.
* Environments that are past end of life are supported on a best-effort basis. They may be dropped in a future minor release of Jasmine if continued support becomes impractical.
Documentation: jasmine.github.io
Please file issues here at GitHub.
Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Pivotal Labs
Copyright (c) 2014-2026 The Jasmine developers
This software is licensed under the MIT License.
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