jest-validate

What is jest-validate?

The jest-validate package is a utility for validating and ensuring that configurations passed to Jest, the JavaScript testing framework, are correct. It checks if the provided configuration object adheres to Jest's expected configurations and provides warnings or errors for any invalid or unknown options. This helps developers to quickly identify issues with their Jest setup.

What are jest-validate's main functionalities?

Validation of configuration objects

This feature allows developers to validate their Jest configuration objects against a schema. It ensures that the configuration provided matches the expected format and values that Jest can work with.

{"validateConfig": require('jest-validate').validateConfig, "config": { "verbose": true }, "exampleConfig": { "verbose": false }}

Customization of validation messages

Developers can provide custom messages for unknown or deprecated options. This helps in guiding the user to correct their configuration with helpful feedback.

{"validateConfig": require('jest-validate').validateConfig, "config": { "unknownOption": true }, "exampleConfig": { "verbose": false }, "options": { "comment": "A custom message for unknownOption" }}

Deprecation warnings

jest-validate can warn users about deprecated configuration options. It provides a mechanism to inform users about the new options they should use instead.

{"validateConfig": require('jest-validate').validateConfig, "config": { "scriptPreprocessor": "<rootDir>/preprocessor.js" }, "exampleConfig": { "transform": {"^.+\\.js$": "<rootDir>/preprocessor.js"} }, "deprecatedConfig": { "scriptPreprocessor": "Please use `transform` instead" }}

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README

jest-validate

Generic configuration validation tool that helps you with warnings, errors and deprecation messages as well as showing users examples of correct configuration.

npm install --save jest-validate

Usage

import {validate} from 'jest-validate';

validate((config: Object), (options: ValidationOptions)); // => {hasDeprecationWarnings: boolean, isValid: boolean}

Where ValidationOptions are:

type ValidationOptions = {
  blacklist?: Array<string>,
  comment?: string,
  condition?: (option: any, validOption: any) => boolean,
  deprecate?: (
    config: Object,
    option: string,
    deprecatedOptions: Object,
    options: ValidationOptions,
  ) => true,
  deprecatedConfig?: {[key: string]: Function},
  error?: (
    option: string,
    received: any,
    defaultValue: any,
    options: ValidationOptions,
  ) => void,
  exampleConfig: Object,
  recursive?: boolean,
  title?: Title,
  unknown?: (
    config: Object,
    exampleConfig: Object,
    option: string,
    options: ValidationOptions,
  ) => void,
};

type Title = {|
  deprecation?: string,
  error?: string,
  warning?: string,
|};

exampleConfig is the only option required.

API

By default jest-validate will print generic warning and error messages. You can however customize this behavior by providing options: ValidationOptions object as a second argument:

Almost anything can be overwritten to suite your needs.

Options

• recursiveBlacklist – optional array of string keyPaths that should be excluded from deep (recursive) validation.
• comment – optional string to be rendered below error/warning message.
• condition – an optional function with validation condition.
• deprecate, error, unknown – optional functions responsible for displaying warning and error messages.
• deprecatedConfig – optional object with deprecated config keys.
• exampleConfig – the only required option with configuration against which you'd like to test.
• recursive - optional boolean determining whether recursively compare exampleConfig to config (default: true).
• title – optional object of titles for errors and messages.

You will find examples of condition, deprecate, error, unknown, and deprecatedConfig inside source of this repository, named respectively.

Examples

Minimal example:

validate(config, {exampleConfig});

Example with slight modifications:

validate(config, {
  comment: '  Documentation: http://custom-docs.com',
  deprecatedConfig,
  exampleConfig,
  title: {
    deprecation: 'Custom Deprecation',
    // leaving 'error' and 'warning' as default
  },
});

This will output:

Warning:

● Validation Warning:

  Unknown option transformx with value "<rootDir>/node_modules/babel-jest" was found.
  This is either a typing error or a user mistake. Fixing it will remove this message.

  Documentation: http://custom-docs.com

Error:

● Validation Error:

  Option transform must be of type:
    object
  but instead received:
    string

  Example:
  {
    "transform": {
      "^.+\\.js$": "<rootDir>/preprocessor.js"
    }
  }

  Documentation: http://custom-docs.com

Deprecation

Based on deprecatedConfig object with proper deprecation messages. Note custom title:

Custom Deprecation:

  Option scriptPreprocessor was replaced by transform, which support multiple preprocessors.

  Jest now treats your current configuration as:
  {
    "transform": {".*": "xxx"}
  }

  Please update your configuration.

  Documentation: http://custom-docs.com

Changelog

23.6.0

Features

• [jest-cli] Add changedSince to allowed watch mode configs (#6955)
• [babel-jest] Add support for babel.config.js added in Babel 7.0.0 (#6911)
• [jest-resolve] Add support for an experimental mapper option (Watchman crawler only) that adds virtual files to the Haste map (#6940)

Fixes

• [jest-resolve] Only resolve realpath once in try-catch (#6925)
• [expect] Fix TypeError in toBeInstanceOf on null or undefined (#6912)
• [jest-jasmine2] Throw a descriptive error if the first argument supplied to a hook was not a function (#6917) and (#6931)
• [jest-circus] Throw a descriptive error if the first argument supplied to a hook was not a function (#6917) and (#6931)
• [expect] Fix variadic custom asymmetric matchers (#6898)
• [jest-cli] Fix incorrect testEnvironmentOptions warning (#6852)
• [jest-each] Prevent done callback being supplied to describe (#6843)
• [jest-config] Better error message for a case when a preset module was found, but no jest-preset.js or jest-preset.json at the root (#6863)
• [jest-haste-map] Catch crawler error when unsuccessfully reading directories (#6761)

Chore & Maintenance

• [docs] Add custom toMatchSnapshot matcher docs (#6837)
• [docs] Improve the documentation regarding preset configuration (#6864)
• [docs] Clarify usage of --projects CLI option (#6872)
• [docs] Correct failure-change notification mode (#6878)
• [scripts] Don’t remove node_modules from subdirectories of presets in e2e tests (#6948)
• [diff-sequences] Double-check number of differences in tests (#6953)