What's your favorite JS testing framework?

#watercooler #javascript #testing

Nowadays, the industry is dominated by agile development and tight deadlines. Manual unit testing can be complex and time-consuming, so it makes sense to rely on automated frameworks.

Some of the favorites include: Jest, Mocha, Jasmine, Karma.

Do you unit test your code and what's your favorite testing framework?

Latest comments (23)

Madza • Mar 24 '22

Thanks for the valuable insight 💯👍✨

Andrew Baisden • Oct 1 '21

Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library and Cypress.

Madza • Oct 1 '21

Thanks for the input 🙏❤

Mage AI • Sep 30 '21

We use React on our frontend, so Jest and Enzyme are our preferred JS testing frameworks. Since these are quite popular, there are also a lot of great resources out there on using them, and Jest is even recommended in React's docs.

Full Name • Sep 29 '21 • Edited

I use tape for most purposes. Simple, lightweight, works as well today as it did years and years ago. It's also very similar to Rust's built-in test runner, so when I move between languages the context switch is that much lighter.

I also personally dislike the bdd test style (thus I wouldn't use a framework that only provides that option, assuming the choice is mine). Not for any technical reasons that actually matter, just personal taste. So much noise for the same results.

Madza • Sep 29 '21

Thanks for the input 👍😉

Frédéric Bonnet • Sep 29 '21

For unit tests my favorite combo is Mocha/Chai, plus Sinon if I need mocks (though it's rarely the case for unit testing). For dev E2E I'm a big fan of CodeceptJS, far superior to Cypress IMHO.