Vitest: Browser Mode

This is the library for using Vitest with browser mode for testing components. It's still fairly early in development, but you can already use it for some purposes.

Setup

The following is a pretty basic setup for testing components in Svelte, Vue, or React:

1. pnpm i -D @quickpickle/vitest-browser@latest

2. add plugins to the Vitest configuration, in one of the configuration files (vite.config.ts, vitest.config.ts, or vitest.workspace.ts). Here is a working example from a SvelteKit project:

   1// File: vitest.workspace.ts
   2import quickpickle from "quickpickle";
   3
   4export default [
   5  {
   6    plugins: [quickpickle()],
   7    extends: './vite.config.ts',
   8    test: {
   9      name: 'components',
   10      environment: 'browser',
   11      include: ['src/lib/**/*.feature'], // anticipates putting the .feature files next to components
   12      setupFiles: ['./tests/components.steps.ts'], // this file must be created (see step 3)
   13      // @ts-ignore
   14      quickpickle: {
   15        worldConfig: {
   16          componentDir: 'src/lib', // The directory where the components are kept
   17        }
   18      },
   19      browser: { // This is configuration for Vitest browser mode, and can be modified as appropriate
   20        enabled: true,
   21        screenshotFailures: true,
   22        name: 'chromium',
   23        provider: 'playwright',
   24        ui: true,
   25        instances: [
   26          { browser:'chromium' },
   27        ]
   28      }
   29    }
   30  },
   31]

3. Create a step definition file for your component tests:

   1// File: tests/components.steps.ts
   2import '@quickpickle/vitest-browser/actions';
   3import '@quickpickle/vitest-browser/outcomes';
   4import '@quickpickle/vitest-browser/svelte'; // OR react or vue

Known Issues:

• Reactivity is currently broken for Svelte and Vue tests.
• Selecting elements by css selector doesn't work yet.
• Performing screenshot comparisons may result in an extra screenshot being created for @vitest/browser versions below 3.2.0

Suspected Issues:

• I suspect that there will still be issues with the test code not properly waiting for changes to propagate on the page when there are delays for CSS transitions, async fetch calls, etc.

Plans:

[x] basic actions and outcomes in English, to match @quickpickle/playwright [x] basic tests for rendering Svelte, Vue, and React components [x] full tests for all actions and outcomes, matching @quickpickle/playwright [ ] some sort of Storybook-esque presentation using Vitest UI