Jest vs Baretest: What are the differences?
Jest: Painless JavaScript Unit Testing. Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine; Baretest: A Minimalistic Alternative to Jest. It is a fast and simple JavaScript test runner. It offers near-instant performance and a brainless API. It makes testing tolerable.
Jest and Baretest can be primarily classified as "Javascript Testing Framework" tools.
Some of the features offered by Jest are:
- Familiar Approach: Built on top of the Jasmine test framework, using familiar expect(value).toBe(other) assertions
- Mock by Default: Automatically mocks CommonJS modules returned by require(), making most existing code testable
- Short Feedback Loop: DOM APIs are mocked and tests run in parallel via a small node.js command line utility
On the other hand, Baretest provides the following key features:
- Fast and simple JavaScript test runner
- Tiny footprint
- Near-instant performance
Jest is an open source tool with 29.6K GitHub stars and 4.17K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jest's open source repository on GitHub.