Auto-detect project path?

I’m new to vscode and this extension, so I’m not sure if I’m missing something.

My workspace contains a Java backend and a TypeScript/JavaScript frontend. The frontend is in folder scroll-documents-ui/src/main/frontend. Getting this extension to work wasn’t easy, as it was not clear from the documentation which config option I would have to set:

• Without any config, it wouldn’t work as it would look for jest in node_modules/.bin/jest based on my workspace directory, rather than the frontend directory.
• Specifying jestrunner.jestPath didn’t work, because it was running the tests from the workspace directory, rather than the frontend directory. For some reason this caused jest not to be able to parse the test files. Also, a relative path worked for jestrunner.jestPath despite the documentation specifying that it needs to be an absolute path.
• Specifying jestrunner.projectPath worked, although only as an absolute path, not as a relative path.

The main pain points that I see here are:

• The documentation is not very explicit on how exactly to configure a multi-module workspace, even though I think that scenario is very common when developing an application that has a frontend and a backend?
• The requirement of specifying jestrunner.projectPath as an absolute path makes it impossible to share my workspace config with other developers.
• What if I want to use jest in multiple modules, for example in the frontend and in the backend?

I’m wondering why this extension is not detecting the project path automatically? My guess would be that it should be the closest ancestor directory to the test for which a node_modules/.bin/jest sub-path exists.

[berndartmueller]

For anyone who’s interested, here’s a simple shell script which I use for a Yarn workspaces project:

# Extract working directory based on jest config file

# Path to Jest config file supplied by VSCode Jest Runner
jest_config=$3

# Remove part after last slash
cwd=$(echo "$jest_config" | sed 's|\(.*\)/.*|\1|')

cd "$cwd"

command="node '$cwd/node_modules/.bin/jest' '$1' -c $jest_config -t '$5' $6"

eval "$command"

cd ../..

How to use

1. Put script into ./bin/jest.sh in the root folder of your project
2. Add "jestrunner.jestCommand": ". bin/jest.sh" to your VSCode settings.json
3. Use VSCode Jest runner as usual end enjoy your working tests 😃

This script is my opinionated way to auto-detect the working directory of the test file. It can be improved to be more “smart” about how to find the CWD (e.g. traverse the file tree looking for a package.json,…)

[firsttris]

Hey guys, for me and many others the extension already works well with yarn workspaces.

the only thing which is not currently supported is if your jest binrary / config is not in the root folder.

i think the smartest way to solve this would be a todo a reverse lookup for the jest binrary. To find the hierarchy level where the jest binrary is in the node_modules. This should be the correct folder to start Jest.