Defining test timeout as a config parameter

🚀 Feature Proposal

I’d like to propose introducing a new config parameter config called timeout, that would accept a number or a string.

Motivation

To set a global timeout different than Jest’s default, one must use a setupTestFrameworkScriptFile config and create a new file. This is a bit cumbersome, isn’t it?

It would also play nice with the API we have for already: jest.setTimeout(number).

Example

"jest": {
  "timeout": 60000
}

Pitch

Why does this feature belong in the Jest core platform?

It is a config change, duh.

[SimenB]

Having a flag like ‘disable timeouts’ on the cli to help debugging makes more sense to me than being able to set a timeout

[felixfbecker]

I can’t believe this doesn’t exist? How is it even possible to use a step debugger if every test times out after 5s?