Jest Boilerplate Project

Overview

This project is a template Jest testing environment project ready for use.

In this project you can:

• Use ES6 import and export
• Have intellisense in VS Code for the Jest matchers.

Setting Up the Project

To set up the project you need to initialise Node:

npm init -y

This will then generate the package.json file.

Installing the dependencies

npm install -D @babel/preset-env jest
npm install -S @types/jest

Copying the project

You can simply take the babel.config.js file and add the dev and main dependencies from the package.json file to copy the project in order to run Jest in your own project.

Ensure you run npm install once you update dependencies.

Troubleshooting

If you see:

jest: command not found

Then you need to run npm install in order to install required packages.