Unable to disable terminal on launch

In the 4.4.0 release notes, I see this new feature highlighted:

enhanced test output discovery by automatically opening TestExplorer terminal upon launch.

Is there an option to disable this? I personally use this extension for quick success/failure visualization in the code margins, and I switch to my terminal app (not a panel within VSCode) when I need more granular test output. I don’t use VSCode terminals and I’d prefer not to have to close them every time I launch or reload the window.

Thanks for all your great work on this extension — it’s invaluable!

[connectdotz]

feel free to try the pre-release 4.5.0, you should be able to turn off the terminal with "jest.showTerminalOnLaunch": false setting.

[connectdotz]

@KevinBatdorf, you raised good points!

You’re also assuming that every JavaScript project is using Jest (I’m guessing because it finds the executable?).

Not every javascript project, but those with a jest in node_modules will indeed activate the extension. I was a bit surprised that a project not using jest could still have jest in the node_module… Can you give us a bit more detail so we can see if we can improve the activation logic to avoid such false positive.

In any case, you convinced me that to treat “no test” as an error might not be the proper severity. I will change that to a warning in the next release.

Instead of flashing the terminal, could you just colorize the status bar like Prettier does?

I also agree with @jakemhiller that this is a great idea! 😃 With this visual cue, I think we could add a jest.showTerminalOnError setting, knowing the alert is not lost.

@jakemhiller Just want to make sure we are on the same page, the errors triggered the show-terminal is not regular test errors but operation or configuration errors that prevented jest from running normally. These should be relatively rate but I do agree we could enhance it as mentioned above.