Jest vs seneca: What are the differences?
Jest: Painless JavaScript Unit Testing. Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine; seneca: A Micro-Services toolkit for Node.js. Seneca is a toolkit for organizing the business logic of your app. You can break down your app into "stuff that happens", rather than focusing on data models or managing dependencies.
Jest and seneca are primarily classified as "Javascript Testing Framework" and "Microservices" tools respectively.
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, seneca provides the following key features:
- pattern matching: a wonderfully flexible way to handle business requirements
- transport independence: how messages get to the right server is not something you should have to worry about
- maturity: 5 years in production (before we called it micro-services), but was once taken out by lightning
Jest and seneca are both open source tools. It seems that Jest with 26.4K GitHub stars and 3.57K forks on GitHub has more adoption than seneca with 3 GitHub stars and 1 GitHub forks.