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Troubleshooting

You can check Jest troubleshooting guide

Common issues​

Problems may arise if you're using custom builds (this preset is tailored for angular-cli as firstly priority). Please be advised that every entry in default configuration may be overridden to best suite your app's needs.

Can't resolve all parameters for SomeClass(?)​

With Angular 8 and higher, a change to the way the Angular CLI works may be causing your metadata to be lost. You can update your tsconfig.spec.json to include the emitDecoratorMetadata compiler option:

tsconfig.spec.json
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true
  }
}

In general, this is related to Angular's reflection and also depends on a reflection library, as e. g. included in core-js. We use our own minimal reflection that satisfy Angular's current requirements, but in case these change, you can install core-js and import the reflection library in your setup-jest.ts:

setup-jest.ts
import 'core-js/es/reflect';
import 'core-js/proposals/reflect-metadata';

Note that this might also be related to other issues with the dependency injection and parameter type reflection.

@Input() bindings are not reflected into fixture when ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush is used​

This issue is not related to Jest, it's a known Angular bug

To mitigate this, you need to wrap your component under test, into some container component with default change detection strategy (ChangeDetectionStrategy.Default) and pass props through it, or overwrite change detection strategy within TestBed setup, if it's not critical for the test.

some.component.spec.ts
beforeEach(async(() => {
  TestBed.configureTestingModule({ declarations: [PizzaItemComponent] })
    .overrideComponent(PizzaItemComponent, {
      set: { changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.Default },
    })
    .compileComponents();
}));

The animation trigger "transformMenu" has failed​

The currently used JSDOM version handles this, but older versions used before v7 of this preset was missing transform property. To patch it for Angular Material, use this workaround.

Add this to your global mock file

jest-global-mocks.ts
Object.defineProperty(document.body.style, 'transform', {
  value: () => {
    return {
      enumerable: true,
      configurable: true,
    };
  },
});

Reference: https://github.com/angular/material2/issues/7101

Unexpected token [import|export|other]​

This means, that a file is not transformed through TypeScript compiler, e.g. because it is a JS file with TS syntax, or it is published to npm as uncompiled source files. Here's what you can do. A typical Jest error is like this:

({"Object.<anonymous>":function(module,exports,require,__dirname,__filename,jest){import * as i0 from '@angular/core';
                                                                                                                                           ^^^^^^
    SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

To fix the issue, one needs to adjust transformIgnorePatterns whitelist:

jest.config.ts
import type { Config } from 'jest';

const jestConfig: Config = {
  // ...other options
  transformIgnorePatterns: ['node_modules/(?!@angular|@ngrx)'],
};

export default jestConfig;

By default, Jest doesn't transform node_modules, because they should be valid JavaScript files. However, it happens that library authors assume that you'll compile their sources. So you have to tell this to Jest explicitly. Above snippet means that @angular, @ngrx will be transformed, even though they're node_modules.

If the dependency causing the issue is a sub dependency of a node_modules packages or a module designed to be used with nodeJS, a custom resolver could be required to fix the issue. See below for more information.

Allow vendor libraries like jQuery, etc...​

The same like normal Jest configuration, you can load jQuery in your Jest setup file. For example your Jest setup file is setup-jest.ts you can declare jQuery:

setup-jest.ts
window.$ = require('path/to/jquery');

or

setup-jest.ts
import $ from 'jquery';
global.$ = global.jQuery = $;

The same declaration can be applied to other vendor libraries.

Reference: https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/708

Coverage fail but tests pass​

This issue happens because Jest uses Babel behind the screen to create coverage reporter. To fix this issue, one can do the following:

  • Install babel-jest, @babel/core and @babel/preset-env
  • Create a .babelrc at the same place where Jest config file locates and define the necessary Babel plugins. For example
.babelrc
{
  // this plugin will fix issue with class inheritance
  "plugins": ["@babel/plugin-transform-classes"]
}
  • Define the usage of Babel in Jest config via ts-jest option, for example
jest.config.ts
import type { Config } from 'jest';

const jestConfig: Config = {
  transform: {
    '^.+\\.(ts|js|mjs|html|svg)$': [
      'jest-preset-angular',
      {
        //...
        babelConfig: true,
        //...
      },
    ],
  },
};

export default jestConfig;

Resolver needed for some javascript library or nested dependencies​

This can happen in two identified cases.

Javascript library​

When using a javascript SDK/Library in Angular, some javascript methods could fail to be properly rendered in tests. Some examples are the firebase and firebase/compat SDK.

A typical error could appear as:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'FacebookAuthProvider')
    import firebase from 'firebase/compat/app';

    > export const facebookAuthProvider = new firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider();

Nested dependency (node_modules package within another package node_nodules)​

Some nested dependency tree could trigger some errors while running the tests because some bundles (especially ESM ones) could be somehow errored. An example is the @angular/fire package which uses the @firebase/firestore package.

A typical error could appear as:

node_modules\@angular\fire\node_modules\@firebase\firestore\dist\index.esm2017.js:12705
                    function (t, e) {
                    ^^^^^^^^

    SyntaxError: Function statements require a function name

Resolution​

In these cases, a transformIgnorePatterns whitelisting could not fix the issue. The solution here is to use a custom resolver. You may or may not need to remove entries from transformIgnorePatterns whitelisting.

Here is an example of a resolver which would fix firebase related packages.

jest.resolver.ts
import type { SyncResolver } from 'jest-resolve';

const myResolver: SyncResolver = (path, options) => {
  // Call the defaultResolver, so we leverage its cache, error handling, etc.
  return options.defaultResolver(path, {
    ...options,
    // Use packageFilter to process parsed `package.json` before the resolution (see https://www.npmjs.com/package/resolve#resolveid-opts-cb)
    packageFilter: (pkg) => {
      const pkgNamesToTarget = new Set([
        'rxjs',
        '@firebase/auth',
        '@firebase/storage',
        '@firebase/functions',
        '@firebase/database',
        '@firebase/auth-compat',
        '@firebase/database-compat',
        '@firebase/app-compat',
        '@firebase/firestore',
        '@firebase/firestore-compat',
        '@firebase/messaging',
        '@firebase/util',
        'firebase',
      ]);

      if (pkgNamesToTarget.has(pkg.name)) {
        // console.log('>>>', pkg.name)
        delete pkg['exports'];
        delete pkg['module'];
      }

      return pkg;
    },
  });
};

export = myResolver;
jest.config.ts
import type { Config } from 'jest';

const jestConfig: Config = {
  //...
  resolver: '<rootDir>/src/jest.resolver.ts',
  //...
};

export default jestConfig;

Inject dependencies with TypeScript interface or exported namespace​

Please use Angular inject instead of @Inject. This is because jest-preset-angular has caveat when working with class constructor and decorator.