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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.
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| name | vitest |
| description | 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. |
| metadata | {"author":"Anthony Fu","version":"2026.1.28","source":"Generated from https://github.com/vitest-dev/vitest, scripts located at https://github.com/antfu/skills"} |
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:
The skill is based on Vitest 3.x, generated at 2026-01-28.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
