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For the past few weeks I’ve taken the (arguably pointless) work of migrating Felte from using Jest to uvu. This is a really tedious work by itself, but one of details that would have made this work even more tedious is that Jest prefers assertions to the style of expect(…).toBe* while uvu gives you freedom to choose any assertion library, although there’s an official uvu/assert module that comes with assertions to the style of assert.is(value, expected).
For the past few weeks I’ve taken the (arguably pointless) work of migrating Felte from using Jest to uvu. This is a really tedious work by itself, but one of details that would have made this work even more tedious is that Jest prefers assertions to the style of expect(…).toBe* while uvu gives you freedom to choose any assertion library, although there’s an official uvu/assert module that comes with assertions to the style of assert.is(value, expected).
This setup works really good! But there’s some minor details: The assertion errors thrown by Chai are slightly different than those expected by uvu., so sometimes I’d get messages or extra details that are not so relevant to the test itself. Another issue is that I’d receive diffs comparing undefined to undefined when an assertion failed. As a proper developer with too much free time, I went ahead and decided to experiment with writing my own assertion library built on top of uvu’s assertions that I called uvu-expect. Here’s more or less how I did it.
Possibility to create plugins for it using an extend function. This is how I also created a plugin for it called uvu-expect-dom which offers similar validations to @testing-library/jest-dom.
Assertions on mock functions (compatible with sinonjs and tinyspy).
Assertions on mock functions (compatible with sinonjs and tinyspy).
While this is fine and I could have perfectly moved all my tests to use said assertion style, I like the descriptive way Jest tests look like. As a quick way to maintain certain similarity I reached for ChaiJS, an assertion library that is mainly used with mocha. Chai offers expect like assertions that can arguably be more descriptive than Jest’s. Instead of writing expect(…).toBe(true), you’d write expect(…).to.be.true. For the most part I managed to do a search and replace for this.