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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

You're reading from  Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564732
Pages 538 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nathan Rozentals Nathan Rozentals
Profile icon Nathan Rozentals

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Up and Running Quickly 2. Exploring the Type System 3. Interfaces, Classes, Inheritance, and Modules 4. Generics and Advanced Type Inference 5. Asynchronous Language Features 6. Decorators 7. Integration with JavaScript 8. Strict Compiler Options 9. Using Observables to Transform Data 10. Test-Driven Development 11. Angular 12. React 13. Vue 14. Node and Express 15. An AWS Serverless API 16. Micro Front-ends 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Jest

Jest is a simple-to-configure and powerful JavaScript unit testing framework that is built on top of the popular Jasmine framework. Jasmine has been around for a very long time, and is a mature, fully featured, and widely used testing framework. Jest enhances Jasmine by making it easier to configure, as well as providing a wealth of extra features. Jest tests can also be run concurrently, which significantly speeds up the length of time a test suite will take to run. Jest is available through npm, and will therefore require an npm environment, which can be created as follows:

npm init

Here, we have initialized an npm project and can now install the required Jest packages, as follows:

npm install jest --save-dev

With Jest installed, we can either run it using the command npx jest, or we can modify our package.json file to specify that Jest will be used when we run npm test. Let's update our package.json file as follows:

{
  "name": "src...
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