yFiles for HTML Jest Demo

Jest Demo

The Jest demo shows how to use Jest for unit testing yFiles for HTML application logic.

yFiles and Jest

While modern JavaScript (or TypeScript) applications usually use JavaScript modules, Jest's support for native JavaScript modules is still experimental. For this reason, JavaScript modules code is transpiled. Due to its size, transpiling the yFiles JavaScript modules library is rather slow.

Some parts of yFiles require a complete DOM implementation, which Jest's JSDOM environment does not provide. To still be able to test code that uses yFiles API that require a DOM, it is necessary to mock yFiles. See the tests/ItemFactoryWithMock.test.js file for details.

If you want to test your yFiles application with Jest in a fully functional browser environment, see the Jest Puppeteer Demo.

To run the unit tests:

  1. Go to the demo's directory demos-js/testing/jest.
  2. Run npm install.
  3. Run the unit tests with npm run test.