vitest
🤖 AI Summary
This AI agent skill configures and executes Vitest 3.x test suites, leveraging Vite's pipeline for fast HMR-like updates, parallel multi-threaded execution, and smart watch mode that only reruns affected tests. It provides Jest-compatible APIs with native ESM/TypeScript/JSX support, plus built-in coverage, snapshot, mocking, and spy utilities.
How to Install
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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antfu/skills.git && cp skills/skills/vitest ~/.claude/skills/vitest -rVitest is a next-generation testing framework powered by Vite. It provides a Jest-compatible API with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support out of the box. Vitest shares the same config, transformers, resolvers, and plugins with your Vite app.
**Key Features:**
- Vite-native: Uses Vite's transformation pipeline for fast HMR-like test updates
- Jest-compatible: Drop-in replacement for most Jest test suites
- Smart watch mode: Only reruns affected tests based on module graph
- Native ESM, TypeScript, JSX support without configuration
- Multi-threaded workers for parallel test execution
- Built-in coverage via V8 or Istanbul
- Snapshot testing, mocking, and spy utilities
> The skill is based on Vitest 3.x, generated at 2026-01-28.
## Core
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|-------|-------------|-----------|
| Configuration | Vitest and Vite config integration, defineConfig usage | [core-config](references/core-config.md) |
| CLI | Command line interface, commands and options | [core-cli](references/core-cli.md) |
| Test API | test/it function, modifiers like skip, only, concurrent | [core-test-api](references/core-test-api.md) |
| Describe API | describe/suite for grouping tests and nested suites | [core-describe](references/core-describe.md) |
| Expect API | Assertions with toBe, toEqual, matchers and asymmetric matchers | [core-expect](references/core-expect.md) |
| Hooks | beforeEach, afterEach, beforeAll, afterAll, aroundEach | [core-hooks](references/core-hooks.md) |
## Features
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|-------|-------------|-----------|
| Mocking | Mock functions, modules, timers, dates with vi utilities | [features-mocking](references/features-mocking.md) |
| Snapshots | Snapshot testing with toMatchSnapshot and inline snapshots | [features-snapshots](references/features-snapshots.md) |
| Coverage | Code coverage with V8 or Istanbul providers | [features-coverage](references/features-coverage.md) |
| Test Context | Test fixtures, context.expect, test.extend for custom fixtures | [features-context](references/features-context.md) |
| Concurrency | Concurrent tests, parallel execution, sharding | [features-concurrency](references/features-concurrency.md) |
| Filtering | Filter tests by name, file patterns, tags | [features-filtering](references/features-filtering.md) |
## Advanced
| Topic | Description | Reference |
|-------|-------------|-----------|
| Vi Utilities | vi helper: mock, spyOn, fake timers, hoisted, waitFor | [advanced-vi](references/advanced-vi.md) |
| Environments | Test environments: node, jsdom, happy-dom, custom | [advanced-environments](references/advanced-environments.md) |
| Type Testing | Type-level testing with expectTypeOf and assertType | [advanced-type-testing](references/advanced-type-testing.md) |
| Projects | Multi-project workspaces, different configs per project | [advanced-projects](references/advanced-projects.md) |
Details
| Category | Coding → generation |
| Source | antfu/skills |
| SKILL.md | View on GitHub → |
| Repo Stars | ★ 5.4K |
| Est. per Skill | 283 (shared across 19 skills from this repo) |
| Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Risk Level | N/A |
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