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πŸš€ Configure Vitest with React Testing Library πŸš€

Thiago Pacheco on March 16, 2023

It is 2023 and we have so many options to create a react app that it can be hard to choose between tools, but most people are choosing Vite because...
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Aaron Cooper

Great article, thanks, but it has an error in the matchers import, at least at the present time in my project (perhaps the API has changed).

You must now use * as matchers in the import inside setup.ts, like this:

import * as matchers from "@testing-library/jest-dom/matchers";
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After which it'll work. Cheers!

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Thiago Pacheco

Thanks a lot, I'll update the post to have the correct import.

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EdWright • Edited

From what I can see v6 of @testing-library/jest-dom removes the need to extend the matchers at all, instead you can just use import '@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest'. This means that the setup file is:

import { afterEach } from 'vitest';
import { cleanup } from '@testing-library/react';
import '@testing-library/jest-dom/vitest';

afterEach(() => {
  cleanup();
});
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These are the dependencies in my package.json for reference:

"devDependencies": {
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "^6.1.4",
    "@testing-library/react": "^14.0.0",
    "@types/react": "^18.2.15",
    "@types/react-dom": "^18.2.7",
    "@vitejs/plugin-react": "^4.0.3",
    "eslint": "^8.45.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.32.2",
    "eslint-plugin-react-hooks": "^4.6.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react-refresh": "^0.4.3",
    "jsdom": "^22.1.0",
    "vite": "^4.4.5",
    "vitest": "^0.34.6"
}
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Hope this helps!

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Roee Fl

Thank you for the comment @edwright75 . This is indeed cleaner.

I was about to add the same comment.

@pacheco I'd recommend updating the article ^^

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Aaron Luna

Thanks a lot!!!

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Muhammad Usman

Great, thanks Thiago

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LighteningCode

Thanks so much, very simple and straight forward, this helped me :)

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Monaye Win

couldn't find testMatch property on the docs. Is it still valid?
+ testMatch: ['./tests/**/*.test.tsx'],?

by default it includes Default: ['**/*.{test,spec}.?(c|m)[jt]s?(x)']
vitest.dev/config/#include

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Ne Da • Edited

You need to add this to the top of the file to fix the type error:
/// <reference types="vitest" />
It's mentioned here in the docs.

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ardiwsaputra • Edited

Hello, Thanks for the sharing. When i follow the step and run npm run test. I got some warning like bellow, but the test passed. Any solutions?

TypeError: Failed to parse URL from /eslint.json
at Object.fetch (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:11576:11) {
[cause]: TypeError: Invalid URL

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Monaye Win

Thank you for the great articles. I've followed your and other's article to create starter template. if anyone interested. Welcome any improvement -

github.com/monaye/vite-vitest-reac...

It also has Vitest UI/Coverage as well.

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irshad sheikh

should the config be vitest.config.ts?
i was not able to configure in vite.config.ts

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Thiago Dias • Edited

It has passed some time, but you can configure vitest inside vite.config.ts, using:

/// <reference types="vitest" />
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
   plugins: [react()],
   test: {
    environment: 'jsdom',
    setupFiles: ['./tests/setup.ts'],
    testMatch: ['./tests/**/*.test.tsx'],
    globals: true
   }
})
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prbxr

add "types": ["vitest/globals"] to tsconfig compilerOptions

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Will Alicar • Edited

Was getting this error: Property 'toBeInTheDocument' does not exist on type 'JestMatchers'.ts(2339)

Fixed by adding @testing-library/jest-dom to setup.ts

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Aaron Cooper

This didn't work for me, however adding the following inside src/vite-env.d.ts did the trick to include the ambient types on the expect interface:

/// <reference types="@testing-library/jest-dom" />
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Taras Kulchytskyi

If you have an issue with matchers, your envirement can't see it, just install it.
yarn add -D @types/testing-library__jest-dom

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coldPen • Edited

You also need to include the tests setup file path in tsconfig.json if, like me, only your src dir was included
github.com/testing-library/jest-do...

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Bless Darah Gah

Simple and straight to the point article. I used a vitest.config.ts file for me though.

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Andrew Ezeani

This article was of incredible help to me. Thank you

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Fazle Rabbi

Thanks for sharing this