Your task is to follow the outlined steps to migrate your project from your custom framework to Vitest.

Congrats! You are now ready to apply everything you've learned today about testing in practice!

Installing, Configuring, and Testing in Vitest

[00:00] I will start from deleting the setup.ds file. This is the testing framework that we've spent time building throughout the whole workshop, and now it's gone. But don't be sad because of it. The code may be gone, but the things you've learned will stay in your mind forever. Now let's substitute it with the actual testing framework, with Vitest. To do that, I will open the terminal

[00:19] and run npm install Vitest and provide a --save-dev flag to indicate that I'm using Vitest for development. So once this is done and Vitest is installed, we can take a look at our test file, and we can see that the functions like before_all, test, and expect are all thrown in error now because they're missing.

[00:39] The thing is, Vitest is awesome, and it doesn't meddle with our globals without us knowing. So to expose these functions globally, this has to be an explicit choice that we make, and we will absolutely make the choice because we will be using these functions in each and every test suite without exception. To fix this, I will create a config file

[00:57] called Vitest.config.ts. Inside it, I will import from the package Vitest/config function define_config and export it as default. To expose functions like test and expect and before_all globally, we have to provide the test object

[01:17] with globals key set to true. Once we do this, well, nothing really changed. You need to remember, just like we did in our testing framework, we've only provided the runtime part for these globals right now, but we also need the type part, for TypeScript to know about them. To fix this, we need to go to tsconfig.json

[01:36] and add a new property to compiler options called types, where we will include Vitest/globals. And once we provide the types, now finally TypeScript would know where these functions are coming from. They're coming from Vitest. With these changes, let's try running our tests by using npx vitest command.

[01:55] We can see our gree.test.ts suite passing and all this familiar test suites reported in this visual way. But this similarity doesn't end on this visual representation alone. In fact, everything that we wrote before, so our testing setup where we mock the dates,

[02:14] our expectations, and even testing promise rejections with rejects.toThrow stays the same. And this is the beauty of fundamentals. You may change the tools, you may swap the environments, but the things you learned stay forever.

Migrate Tests to Vitest

[00:00] Trying out new tools can be fun, but it can also be challenging. Don't worry, you don't have to go through this exercise alone. In fact, Cody the Koala will help you go through all the steps you need to install and configure Vitest in this project. Just follow him in the instructions to this video. So in the end, you would be able to run the existing tests using npx Vitest command, and see them passing. So, good luck, and see you in the next one.

Writing tests for their own sake is a pointless chore:

```tsx
describe('add numbers', () => {
  it('should add two numbers', () => {
    expect(add(1, 2)).toBe(3)
  })

  it('should add two other numbers', () => {
    expect(add(3, 4)).toBe(7)
  })
});
```

Another annoying testing problem is when tests are too brittle, and paint your logs red even though the application seems to work just fine.

When your tests lack real purpose or seem to fail for no good reason, it's no wonder you start to question their value.

Tests are supposed to give you confidence in your code, and save you from shipping broken stuff to prod. So why does writing them feel like such a burden?

The problem is that tests like these are focused on implementation details instead of the underlying behavior. Everyone talks about the importance of testing, but there's a lack of understanding about how to write tests that are actually useful.

How would it feel to have 100% trust in your tests, knowing that any failures are not a false alarm? What if you could seamlessly translate the underlying behavior of your application into tests that are easy (and even fun) to write?

It's possible, but it requires you to take a step back from just syntax.

In order to have the confidence you're testing the right things in the right ways, you need to dig into the underlying patterns behind the scenes of a testing framework.

This is exactly what you will do in Testing Fundamentals.

In this workshop, Artem Zakharchenko, testing expert and creator of the Mock Service Worker API mocking library, will guide you through creating your own version of the Vitest testing framework.

Building a testing framework from scratch will give you a deep understanding of how the pieces fit together, and change the way you think about testing for the better.

## What You'll Learn

The workshop is broken out into four parts, each with its own challenges and exercises that build upon the last:

### Principles

First, you'll explore the principles and mental models that underlie testing strategies. This is where you will begin to distinguish between the intention of your code and its implementation details. When you focus the intention of what your code should accomplish, you can write tests that are more resilient to change.

### Test Structure

Next, you'll do a deep dive into the structure of the testing framework. You'll create your own `expect` and `test` functions, configure your test environment, and use hooks to manage side effects in your tests.

### Testing Asynchronous Code

Testing asynchronous code requires a slightly different approach when compared to testing synchronous code. Here you'll practice with testing promises and async functions, as well as handling errors and rejections.

### Moving to Vitest

Once you've learned the fundamentals of testing and built your own mini-framework, you will migrate your tests to the Vitest framework. This process will cement your understanding of not just the "hows", but also the "whys" of testing.

## Who This Workshop Is For

This workshop is for developers who have some testing experience, but feel like they're missing the bigger picture. If you're tired of writing tests that feel like a chore, and want to understand how to write tests that are actually useful, this workshop is for you.

In the Testing Fundamentals workshop, you will learn testing principles, framework structure, async handling, and more by building a mini testing-framework!

Testing Fundamentals

Artem Zakharchenko

This workshop covers testing framework structure, asynchronous code, and migrating to Vitest.

Testing Fundamentals Workshop Introduction

Introduction

In this first section, you'll learn by example the core principle of having intentions when testing.

Overview of Testing Principles

Learn how writing an automated test captures your intentions, while manually calling console.log() and viewing the result only really lives in your head.

Learn how you can explicitly define your intentions and automatically test your code without any testing frameworks.

Implement the Automated Greeting Test

Write an Intentional Test

Learn how to create an expect function that provides a readable API for writing tests and refactor existing tests to use it.

Trusting Your Test

Debugging Intent vs. Implementation

You've completed the principles exercise!

Testing Principles Outro

Principles

In this exercise, you will learn about the setup, action, and assertion phases of automated testing and how they applied to testing our simple greet function.

Structure Your Tests

Learn how to write declarative and readable assertions in your TypeScript tests using a custom expect function.

Implement a Declarative API

Imperative vs. Declarative Assertions

In this exercise, you will figure out how to create a test function to isolate and report test results.

Learn how to create a simple testing function in JavaScript to wrap existing tests, provide meaningful test names, and display visual indicators.

Create Test Blocks for Better Organization

Isolating Tests with Test Blocks

In this exercise you'll be figuring out how to separate the test cases into a separate module and make testing functions globally available.

Learn how to gracefully move tests to a separate file, export functions, make test functions global, and run tests using Node.js.

Modular Tests and Global Helpers

Move Tests into Modules

Learn how to handle side effects introduced by the Date constructor in your JavaScript tests.

Create global hooks for setup and tear-down, mock the Date constructor using a Proxy, and then restore it after your tests are ran.

Implement Hooks for Test Setup & Cleanup

Handle Test Side Effects

You learned how to write declarative assertions, provide test isolation, put your tests in separate files, and deal with testing setup.

Test Structure Recap

Test Structure

In this exercise, you will expand your testing library to support testing asynchronous code, and then write tests for an asynchronous greet function.

Overview of Testing Async Code

In this problem, you'll need to figure out how to adjust the test function to support asynchronous callbacks.

Learn how to handle asynchronous functions in tests by using the `await` keyword and marking test functions as asynchronous. 

Awaiting Async Tests

Handling Promises in Tests

In this problem, you will need to figure out how to handle a pending promise and then chain .rejects.toThrow on expect.

In this solution, you'll learn how to use the object chaining syntax to extend the `expect` function with a new assertion called `rejects`.

Handling Promise Rejections

Error Assertions for Rejected Promises

In this problem, you'll create a waitFor method that can await state changes to a notification manager.

Learn how to use a waitFor method to retry a callback until it no longer throws an error or until the maximum number of retries is reached.

Reliably Wait for Async Operations

Testing with Async Side Effects

You've learned about asynchronicity that you can and can't control, and testing strategies for dealing with both.

Recap of Testing Asynchronous Code

Testing Asynchronous Code

In this final section, you'll be migrating your tests to Vitest.

Overview of Vitest

Outro to the Moving to Vitest section of the Testing Fundamentals workshop.

Vitest Review

Moving to Vitest

After completing this workshop you are now equipped to approach any test. There is a lot more to learn about testing! Be sure to check out the linked materials.

Testing Fundamentals

Testing Fundamentals

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