humile

Make Jasmine Great Again!

Description

Humile is Node.js test framework on top of Jasmine. It's as fast and lightweight as Jasmine, but has many additional features:

• Nice exception reports
• Clean stack trace
• Zero config
• No globals (optional)
• TypeScript ready
• Highly customizable
• toMatchObject, toMatchSnapshot

Why don't just use jest?

Jest is awesome, but it's pretty slow for fast tests. When you write a lot of tiny test, jasmine is able to execute more than 1000 tests per second. Also, jest could be too large with its heavy dependencies for a tiny project.

Usage

1. Create the first test spec

   my-first.spec.js

   describe('my first spec', () => {
     it('should test a simple value', () => {
       expect(true).toBe(true);
     });
   });
   

   You can place this file in any subdirectory of your project. Humile searches for *.spec.js and *.test.js files (or ts equivalent) in the current dir.

2. Run humile

   $ npx humile

Configuring

In most cases you can use humile with default configuration. However, it can be easily customized.

Here are the most useful options:

• Test only specified specs

  humile 'mymodule/*.spec.js'

• Filter by spec description:

  humile -f MySpecName

• Disable global jasmine functions (describe, expect, it etc):

  humile -G

• Ignore some files:

  humile -i 'build/**'

• Use another reporter:

  humile -R list

Learn more about configuring humile.

Best practices

• Place specs in specs directory near the actual code
• Place helpers into the top specs directory
• Try to disable global functions
• Use common JavaScript best practices

Read more.