jest-html

Preview Jest snapshots right in your browser. Compatible with Jest 17 and higher

Why?

Preview of React component snapshots in your browser (snapshots and browser devtools, yay!).
Compatible with non-React snapshots as well.
Snapshot diffing (both HTML and raw) and visible indicators that a descendant suite or snapshot has changed.
Custom CSS stylesheets applicable to all snapshots or individual ones.
Intuitive navigation through folders, snapshot suites, and even snapshot groups within a suite.
Real-time updates whenever a snapshot or CSS file changes.
Quickly toggle between the raw snapshots and the HTML previews.

Installation

Add jest-html to your development dependencies:

$ npm install --save-dev jest-html

# or if you use yarn:
$ yarn add jest-html --dev

Add the following configuration to your package.json:

{
  "jest": {
    "snapshotSerializers": ["jest-html"]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "jest-html": "jest-html"
  }
}

Basic usage

By adding jest-html to your snapshotSerializers, HTML previews will be automatically appended to React component snapshots the next time you update them (jest -u).

To review your snapshots, run npm run jest-html (yarn run jest-html). This launches your default browser and opens the jest-html application.

To see all CLI options, run node_modules/.bin/jest-html --help:

  Usage: jest-html [options]

  Options:

    -h, --help                      output usage information
    -V, --version                   output the version number
    -f --snapshot-patterns [globs]  Glob patterns for snapshot files (comma-separated)
    -c --css-patterns [globs]       Glob patterns for CSS stylesheets that will be used for ALL snapshots (comma-separated)
    -p, --port [port]               Initial port number to use (if unavailable, the next available one will be used)
    --no-watch                      Do not watch initially detected snapshot and css files

By default, jest-html looks for snapshots under **/*.snap,!node_modules/**/*, but you can change this using the --snapshot-patterns argument.

Adding custom CSS

jest-html allows the user to add custom CSS to all snapshots or individual ones.

If a snapshot.css file is present at your project root directory, it will be used for all snapshots. You can also modify this default via the --css-patterns CLI option (takes glob patterns, the same as --snapshot-patterns).

CSS can also be added to particular snapshot suites, by including a .css file in the same directory as the snapshot file. For example, settings.js.css will add CSS to the co-located settings.js.snap suite.

Changelog

License (MIT)

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