jest-preset-angular

What is jest-preset-angular?

jest-preset-angular is a Jest preset configuration for Angular projects. It simplifies the setup and configuration of Jest for testing Angular applications, providing necessary configurations, transformers, and environment settings.

What are jest-preset-angular's main functionalities?

Setup and Configuration

This feature provides a preset configuration for Jest, making it easier to set up Jest in Angular projects. The code sample shows how to configure Jest to use jest-preset-angular in the Jest configuration file.

module.exports = { preset: 'jest-preset-angular', setupFilesAfterEnv: ['<rootDir>/setup-jest.ts'] };

Transformers

jest-preset-angular includes transformers to handle TypeScript and Angular templates. The code sample demonstrates how to configure Jest to use ts-jest for transforming TypeScript and HTML files.

module.exports = { transform: { '^.+\.(ts|html)$': 'ts-jest' } };

Global Mocks

jest-preset-angular provides global mocks for common Angular dependencies, such as Angular's testing utilities. The code sample shows how to import jest-preset-angular to include these global mocks in your tests.

import 'jest-preset-angular';

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README

Jest Preset Angular

A preset of Jest configuration for Angular projects.

Our online documentation is available at https://thymikee.github.io/jest-preset-angular/

This is a part of the article: Testing Angular faster with Jest.

Installation

Check out our Installation guidance.

IMPORTANT

Angular doesn't support native async/await in testing with target higher than ES2016, see https://github.com/angular/components/issues/21632#issuecomment-764975917

Migration from Angular < 13

Check out our Migration from Angular < 13 guidance

Example projects with base Jest configuration

We have example apps to provide a basic setup to use Jest in an Angular project. The examples folder consist of several example Angular applications from v13 onwards as well as example projects with yarn workspace or monorepo structure.

Built With

• TypeScript - JavaScript that scales
• Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀
• ts-jest - Jest transformer for TypeScript

Authors/maintainers

• Michał Pierzchała - thymikee
• Ahn - ahnpnl
• Thomas - wtho

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Changelog

15.0.1 (2025-09-15)

Bug Fixes

• remove peer dep jest-environment-jsdom (#3333) (d3e899b), closes #3331

Bug Fixes

• fix(serializers): generated id="root{n}" should be removed (a6b908f)

Features

• feat: allow to customize testEnvironment via preset creator functions (80c95e8)
• feat: upgrade jest to 30 (51df6ec)

Code Refactoring

• refactor: mark jest-environment-jsdom as peer dependency (f9e2b70)
• refactor: drop support for jsdom <22 (da9cb15)
• refactor: drop support for typescript <5.4 (873ab73)
• refactor: drop support for Angular <17 (3a60492)
• refactor: drop support for Node.js <18 (aeef774)
• refactor: remove defaults and defaults-esm presets (94dd3b1)
• refactor: remove setup-jest files (6bf89a4)
• refactor: remove global setup script with ngcc (35819c9)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Jest 30 is required
• Minimum supported version for JSDOM is 26
• ng-jest-resolver is no longer needed for Jest 30 therefore it was removed
• jsdom dep is now MANDATORY peer dependency. Users are required to install jsdom explicitly
• jest-environment-jsdom is now MANDATORY dependency. Users are required to install jest-environment-jsdom explicitly
• Various legacy documentation pages were removed.
• Snapshot generation is affected by (a6b908f). One should update component snapshots via -u Jest CLI option. Since this change only removes the root id, it shouldn't affect the quality of snapshots in general.
• The supported NodeJs versions are ^18.19.1 || ^20.11.1 || >=22.0.0.
• The minimum supported version for Angular is 18 following Angular support policy https://angular.dev/reference/releases#actively-supported-versions
• The minimum supported version for jsdom is 22
• The minimum supported version of TypeScript is 5.5 following the support version from Angular 18
• Running ngcc is not required for Angular 16+ project
• Use createCjsPreset as a replacement for defaults preset
• Use createEsmPreset as a replacement for defaults-esm preset
• Use setupZoneTestEnv as a replacement for zone test environment setup
• Use setupZonelessTestEnv as a replacement for zoneless test environment setup