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.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you setup to use jest-preset-angular in your project. For more detailed documentation, please check online documentation.

Install using yarn:

yarn add -D jest jest-preset-angular @types/jest

Or npm:

npm install -D jest jest-preset-angular @types/jest

Configuration

In your project root, create setup-jest.ts file with following contents:

import 'jest-preset-angular/setup-jest';

Add the following section:

• to your root jest.config.js

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

• or to your root package.json

{
  "jest": {
    "preset": "jest-preset-angular",
    "setupFilesAfterEnv": ["<rootDir>/setup-jest.ts"],
    "globalSetup": "jest-preset-angular/global-setup"
  }
}

Adjust your tsconfig.spec.json to be:

{
  "extends": "./tsconfig.json",
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "./out-tsc/spec",
    "module": "CommonJs",
    "types": ["jest"]
  },
  "include": ["src/**/*.spec.ts", "src/**/*.d.ts"]
}

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

Angular Ivy

Check out our Angular Ivy 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 - The modern web developer's platform
• 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

14.0.0 (2024-01-11)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Drop support for Angular 13, 14 (a3091b5)