What would we be without some extra plugins. There are over 1000 Jasmine npm packages and we’ll cover them all here.

Or apparently just

thlorenz/proxyquire

and some custom reporters:

onury/jasmine-console-reporter

bcaudan/jasmine-spec-reporter

Other Jasmine plugins you might find useful:

node-nock/nock : Test Http requests

jhnns/rewire : Use rewire('./file.js') instead of require() and get a fresh copy each time

Jasmine Console Reporter

Prettier output

npm install jasmine-console-reporter --save-dev

Create a spec/helpers/reporter.js file with the following content:

const JasmineConsoleReporter = require('jasmine-console-reporter');
const myReporter = new JasmineConsoleReporter({
  colors: 1,           // (0|false)|(1|true)|2
  cleanStack: 1,       // (0|false)|(1|true)|2|3
  verbosity: 4,        // (0|false)|1|2|(3|true)|4
  listStyle: 'indent', // "flat"|"indent"
  timeUnit: 'ms',      // "ms"|"ns"|"s"
  timeThreshold: { ok: 500, warn: 1000, ouch: 3000 }, // Object|Number
  activity: false,     // boolean or string ("dots"|"star"|"flip"|"bouncingBar"|...)
  emoji: true,
  beep: true,
});
jasmine.getEnv().clearReporters();
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(myReporter);

Jasmine Spec Reporter

Alternatively, there is also jasmine-spec-reporter:

npm install jasmine-spec-reporter --save-dev

Usage:

const SpecReporter = require('jasmine-spec-reporter').SpecReporter;

jasmine.getEnv().clearReporters();
jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new SpecReporter({
  spec: {
    displayPending: true
  }
}));

Proxyquire

Stub imports of the code being tested.

npm install --save-dev proxyquire

api.js:

module.exports = {
  someLongRunningOperation: function() {
    for (var i = 0; i <= 1000; i++) {}
  }
};

cut.js:

const webApi = require('./api.js');
module.exports = function() {
  webApi.someLongRunningOperation();
};

spec.js:

const proxyquire = require('proxyquire');
var apiStub = {};
const cut = proxyquire('./cut.js', {'./api.js': apiStub});

describe('fake the api call', function() {
  beforeEach(function() {
    this.hasRunStub = false;
    apiStub.someLongRunningOperation = () => this.hasRunStub = true;
  });

  it('should not actually call the api', function() {
    cut();
    expect(this.hasRunStub).toBe(true);
  });
});