# @vue/cli-plugin-unit-jest

unit-jest plugin for vue-cli

# Injected Commands

• vue-cli-service test:unit

  Run unit tests with Jest. Default testMatch is <rootDir>/(tests/unit/**/*.spec.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)|**/__tests__/*.(js|jsx|ts|tsx)) which matches:

  • Any files in tests/unit that end in .spec.(js|jsx|ts|tsx);
  • Any js(x)/ts(x) files inside __tests__ directories.

  Usage: vue-cli-service test:unit [options] <regexForTestFiles>

  All Jest command line options are also supported.

# Debugging Tests

Note that directly running jest will fail because the Babel preset requires hints to make your code work in Node.js, so you must run your tests with vue-cli-service test:unit.

If you want to debug your tests via the Node inspector, you can run the following:

# macOS or linux
node --inspect-brk ./node_modules/.bin/vue-cli-service test:unit

# Windows
node --inspect-brk ./node_modules/@vue/cli-service/bin/vue-cli-service.js test:unit

# Configuration

Jest can be configured via jest.config.js in your project root, or the jest field in package.json.

# Installing in an Already Created Project

vue add unit-jest

# Transform dependencies from /node_modules

By default, jest doesn't transform anything from /node_modules.

Since jest runs in node, we also don't have to transpile anything that uses modern ECMAScript features as Node >=8 already supports these features, so it's a sensible default. cli-plugin-jest also doesn't respect the transpileDependencies option in vue.config.js for the same reason.

However, we have (at least) three cases where we do need to transpile code from /node_modules in jest:

1. Usage of ES6 import/export statements, which have to be compiled to commonjs module.exports
2. Single File Components (.vue files) which have to be run through vue-jest
3. Typescript code

To do this, we need to add an exception to the transformIgnorePatterns option of jest. This is its default value:

transformIgnorePatterns: ['/node_modules/']

We have to add exceptions to this pattern with a RegExp negative lookahead:

transformIgnorePatterns: ['/node_modules/(?!name-of-lib-o-transform)']

To exclude multiple libraries:

transformIgnorePatterns: ['/node_modules/(?!lib-to-transform|other-lib)']