Vitest
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What it does
Vitest fast unit testing framework powered by Vite with Jest-compatible API. Use when writing tests, mocking, configuring coverage, or working with test filtering and fixtures.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/antfu/skills --skill vitestWebsite
www.skills.sh/antfu/skills/vitestDetails
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Vitest is a next-generation testing framework powered by Vite. It provides a Jest-compatible API with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support out of the box. Vitest shares the same config, transformers, resolvers, and plugins with your Vite app.
Key Features:
- Vite-native: Uses Vite's transformation pipeline for fast HMR-like test updates
- Jest-compatible: Drop-in replacement for most Jest test suites
- Smart watch mode: Only reruns affected tests based on module graph
- Native ESM, TypeScript, JSX support without configuration
- Multi-threaded workers for parallel test execution
- Built-in coverage via V8 or Istanbul
- Snapshot testing, mocking, and spy utilities
> The skill is based on Vitest 5.1.0-beta.1, generated at 2026-10-23.
Core
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration | Vitest and Vite config integration, defineConfig usage | core-config |
| CLI | Command line interface, commands and options | core-cli |
| Test API | test/it function, modifiers like skip, only, concurrent | core-test-api |
| Describe API | describe/suite for grouping tests and nested suites | core-describe |
| Expect API | Assertions with toBe, toEqual, matchers and asymmetric matchers | core-expect |
| Hooks | beforeEach, afterEach, beforeAll, afterAll, aroundEach | core-hooks |
Features
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Mocking | Mock functions, modules, timers, dates with vi utilities | features-mocking |
| Snapshots | Snapshot testing with toMatchSnapshot and inline snapshots | features-snapshots |
| Coverage | Code coverage with V8 or Istanbul providers | features-coverage |
| Test Context | Test fixtures, context.expect, test.extend for custom fixtures | features-context |
| Concurrency | Concurrent tests, parallel execution, sharding | features-concurrency |
| Filtering | Filter tests by name, file patterns, tags | features-filtering |
| Test Tags | Label tests with tags to filter runs and apply shared options | features-test-tags |
| Reporters | Built-in reporters, default selection, CI/output config | features-reporters |
| Benchmarking | Write benchmarks with the bench fixture (Tinybench) | features-benchmarking |
Advanced
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Vi Utilities | vi helper: mock, spyOn, fake timers, hoisted, waitFor | advanced-vi |
| Environments | Test environments: node, jsdom, happy-dom, custom | advanced-environments |
| Type Testing | Type-level testing with expectTypeOf and assertType | advanced-type-testing |
| Projects | Multi-project workspaces, different configs per project | advanced-projects |
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