eslint-plugin-jest

ESLint plugin for Jest

Installation

yarn add --dev eslint eslint-plugin-jest

Note: If you installed ESLint globally then you must also install eslint-plugin-jest globally.

Usage

If you're using flat configuration:

With flat configuration, just import the plugin and away you go:

const pluginJest = require('eslint-plugin-jest');

module.exports = [
  {
    // update this to match your test files
    files: ['**/*.spec.js', '**/*.test.js'],
    plugins: { jest: pluginJest },
    languageOptions: {
      globals: pluginJest.environments.globals.globals,
    },
    rules: {
      'jest/no-disabled-tests': 'warn',
      'jest/no-focused-tests': 'error',
      'jest/no-identical-title': 'error',
      'jest/prefer-to-have-length': 'warn',
      'jest/valid-expect': 'error',
    },
  },
];

With legacy configuration, add jest to the plugins section of your .eslintrc configuration file. You can omit the eslint-plugin- prefix:

{
  "plugins": ["jest"],
  "env": {
    "jest/globals": true
  },
  "rules": {
    "jest/no-disabled-tests": "warn",
    "jest/no-focused-tests": "error",
    "jest/no-identical-title": "error",
    "jest/prefer-to-have-length": "warn",
    "jest/valid-expect": "error"
  }
}

Note

You only need to explicitly include our globals if you're not using one of our shared configs

Aliased Jest globals

You can tell this plugin about any global Jests you have aliased using the globalAliases setting:

{
  "settings": {
    "jest": {
      "globalAliases": {
        "describe": ["context"],
        "fdescribe": ["fcontext"],
        "xdescribe": ["xcontext"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Aliased @jest/globals

You can tell this plugin to treat a different package as the source of Jest globals using the globalPackage setting:

{
  "settings": {
    "jest": {
      "globalPackage": "bun:test"
    }
  }
}

Warning

While this can be used to apply rules when using alternative testing libraries and frameworks like bun, vitest and node, there's no guarantee the semantics this plugin assumes will hold outside of Jest

Running rules only on test-related files

The rules provided by this plugin assume that the files they are checking are test-related. This means it's generally not suitable to include them in your top-level configuration as that applies to all files being linted which can include source files.

For .eslintrc configs you can use overrides to have ESLint apply additional rules to specific files:

{
  "extends": ["eslint:recommended"],
  "overrides": [
    {
      "files": ["test/**"],
      "plugins": ["jest"],
      "extends": ["plugin:jest/recommended"],
      "rules": { "jest/prefer-expect-assertions": "off" }
    }
  ],
  "rules": {
    "indent": ["error", 2]
  }
}

For eslint.config.js you can use files and ignores:

const jest = require('eslint-plugin-jest');

module.exports = [
  ...require('@eslint/js').configs.recommended,
  {
    files: ['test/**'],
    ...jest.configs['flat/recommended'],
    rules: {
      ...jest.configs['flat/recommended'].rules,
      'jest/prefer-expect-assertions': 'off',
    },
  },
  // you can also configure jest rules in other objects, so long as some of the `files` match
  {
    files: ['test/**'],
    rules: { 'jest/prefer-expect-assertions': 'off' },
  },
];

Jest version setting

The behaviour of some rules (specifically no-deprecated-functions) change depending on the version of Jest being used.

By default, this plugin will attempt to determine to locate Jest using require.resolve, meaning it will start looking in the closest node_modules folder to the file being linted and work its way up.

Since we cache the automatically determined version, if you're linting sub-folders that have different versions of Jest, you may find that the wrong version of Jest is considered when linting. You can work around this by providing the Jest version explicitly in nested ESLint configs:

{
  "settings": {
    "jest": {
      "version": 27
    }
  }
}

To avoid hard-coding a number, you can also fetch it from the installed version of Jest if you use a JavaScript config file such as .eslintrc.js:

module.exports = {
  settings: {
    jest: {
      version: require('jest/package.json').version,
    },
  },
};

Shareable configurations

Note

eslint.config.js compatible versions of configs are available prefixed with flat/ and may be subject to small breaking changes while ESLint v9 is being finalized.

Recommended

This plugin exports a recommended configuration that enforces good testing practices.

To enable this configuration with .eslintrc, use the extends property:

{
  "extends": ["plugin:jest/recommended"]
}

To enable this configuration with eslint.config.js, use jest.configs['flat/recommended']:

const jest = require('eslint-plugin-jest');

module.exports = [
  {
    files: [/* glob matching your test files */],
    ...jest.configs['flat/recommended'],
  },
];

Style

This plugin also exports a configuration named style, which adds some stylistic rules, such as prefer-to-be-null, which enforces usage of toBeNull over toBe(null).

To enable this configuration use the extends property in your .eslintrc config file:

{
  "extends": ["plugin:jest/style"]
}

To enable this configuration with eslint.config.js, use jest.configs['flat/style']:

const jest = require('eslint-plugin-jest');

module.exports = [
  {
    files: [/* glob matching your test files */],
    ...jest.configs['flat/style'],
  },
];

All

If you want to enable all rules instead of only some you can do so by adding the all configuration to your .eslintrc config file:

{
  "extends": ["plugin:jest/all"]
}

To enable this configuration with eslint.config.js, use jest.configs['flat/all']:

const jest = require('eslint-plugin-jest');

module.exports = [
  {
    files: [/* glob matching your test files */],
    ...jest.configs['flat/all'],
  },
];

While the recommended and style configurations only change in major versions the all configuration may change in any release and is thus unsuited for installations requiring long-term consistency.

Rules

💼 Configurations enabled in.
⚠️ Configurations set to warn in.
✅ Set in the recommended configuration.
🎨 Set in the style configuration.
🔧 Automatically fixable by the --fix CLI option.
💡 Manually fixable by editor suggestions.

Name	Description	💼	⚠️	🔧	💡
consistent-test-it	Enforce test and it usage conventions			🔧
expect-expect	Enforce assertion to be made in a test body		✅
max-expects	Enforces a maximum number assertion calls in a test body
max-nested-describe	Enforces a maximum depth to nested describe calls
no-alias-methods	Disallow alias methods	✅		🔧
no-commented-out-tests	Disallow commented out tests		✅
no-conditional-expect	Disallow calling expect conditionally	✅
no-conditional-in-test	Disallow conditional logic in tests
no-confusing-set-timeout	Disallow confusing usages of jest.setTimeout
no-deprecated-functions	Disallow use of deprecated functions	✅		🔧
no-disabled-tests	Disallow disabled tests		✅
no-done-callback	Disallow using a callback in asynchronous tests and hooks	✅			💡
no-duplicate-hooks	Disallow duplicate setup and teardown hooks
no-export	Disallow using exports in files containing tests	✅
no-focused-tests	Disallow focused tests	✅