How to add ENV variables to the extension?

Environment

1. node -v: v12.6.0

2. npm -v: 6.9.0

3. npm ls jest or npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected): jest@24.8.0 & ts-jest@24.0.2

4. your vscode-jest settings if customized:

   • jest.pathToJest? none
   • jest.pathToConfig? none
   • anything else that you think might be relevant? none

5. Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04

Prerequisite

• are you able to run jest test from command line? Yes
• how do you run your tests from command line? (for example: npm run test or node_modules/.bin/jest) npm run test

Problem

Hi, I’m trying to use the extension, but all my tests fails because there’s missing ENV variables required to make my tests work. My test script looks like this dotenv -e .env.test jest and it works fine, but not with the extension. I tried using jest.pathToJest and set it to npm run test --, but I run into the #316 issue, because I’m using ts-jest. Is there another alternative to my problem?

Thank you.

[ejose19]

You can set environment variables in jest.config.js

ie:

process.env.YOUR_VARIABLE = "here";

module.exports = {
  preset: "ts-jest",
  testEnvironment: "node"
};

I didn’t found any direct way to set the env variables directly within the extension.

[nublson]

I had the same problem, when saving the test file it used .env instead of .env.testing, all I did was import the variables from this file before anything in my test file.

require('dotenv').config({
	path: '.env.testing'
})

const request = require('supertest')
const app = require('../src/app')

test('Should sign up a new user', async () => {
	await request(app)
		.post('/users')
		.send({
			name: 'myName',
			email: '[e-mail]',
			password: '12345678'
		})
		.expect(201)
})