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Does anyone else hate Jest?

Randall on October 09, 2023

I'm usually not this full of hatred, I promise, but lately I've realized that I really hate Jest. Whenever I have a choice, I use Mocha for new pr...
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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

On a large React project, my team wound up dropping Jest after realizing we were spending twice as long making the test framework function as we were actually writing code and real tests.

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Fyodor

In terms of parallelism you mentioned Jest is not ideal as well, at least in monorepo context, had problems with that 90% of the time