Migration Guide

WARNING

Vitest is still in development and it isn't stable.
It's not recommended to migrate your current testing setups yet.
You can try it out in new projects if you are willing to get involved and help.

Migrating from Jest

Vitest has been designed with a Jest compatible API, in order to make the migration from Jest as simple as possible. Despite those efforts, you may still run into the following differences:

Globals as a Default

Jest has their globals API enabled by default. Vitest does not. You can either enable globals via the globals configuration setting or update your code to use imports from the vitest module instead.

If you decide to keep globals disabled, be aware that common libraries like testing-library will not run auto DOM cleanup.

Auto-Mocking Behaviour

Unlike Jest, mocked modules in <root>/__mocks__ are not loaded unless vi.mock() is called. If you need them to be mocked in every test, like in Jest, you can mock them inside setupFiles.

Jasmine API

Jest exports various jasmine globals (such as jasmine.any()). Any such instances will need to be migrated to their Vitest counterparts.