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Arthur Vincent Simon
Arthur Vincent Simon

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How to test exceptions in Jest

How to use Jest .toThrow()

I initially thought that I could do this to unit test for errors

expect(doSomething()).toThrow()
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Unfortunately, this doesn’t work. We need to wrap doSomething in another function in order for this to work

expect(() => doSomething()).toThrow()

//or

expect(function() { doSomething() }).toThrow()
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Spyros Argalias • Edited

Nice.

Just want to chip in to say we can skip the wrapping of the function like so:

expect(doSomething).toThrow()

(if we don't need to provide additional arguments)