Offer Jest as a testing solution for testing extensions

[sketchbuch]

Currently everything is setup up for mocha. Can you also provide a testrunner for jest and let people choose what testing framework they want to use?

[dbaeumer]

@sketchbuch you mean for developing extensions?

[sketchbuch]

Yes. Is this possible?

[sketchbuch]

Hmmm... i think I poste din teh wrong project. I meant vscode not vscode-test. I'm not even sure what this project does. When you use "yo code" to create a skeleton extension I want to be able to choose a testing framework too- between the existing Mocha and Jest,

[octref]

This depends on jest having a programmatic API: jestjs/jest#5048.

You can give jestjs/jest#5048 (comment) a try. Just replace the content of the test runner with whatever jest invocation you need to do to run test. See to-be-published testing docs.

Contribution is welcome if you want to add your jest-based test runner as a sample under https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-samples or updated vscode-docs.

[daddykotex]

FYI: I've pulled things from here and there around the web and ended up: https://github.com/daddykotex/jest-tests

it seems to work fine and uses jest as a test runner instead of mocha