snapshot-diff

Diffing snapshot utility for Jest. Takes two values, and return their difference as a string, ready to be snapshotted with toMatchSnapshot(). Especially helpful when testing the difference between different React component states.

Installation

yarn add --dev snapshot-diff

Usage

With default jest matcher

const snapshotDiff = require('snapshot-diff');

test('snapshot difference between 2 strings', () => {
  expect(snapshotDiff(a, b)).toMatchSnapshot();
});

const React = require('react');
const Component = require('./Component');

test('snapshot difference between 2 React components state', () => {
  expect(
    snapshotDiff(<Component test="say" />, <Component test="my name" />)
  ).toMatchSnapshot();
});

With custom matcher

const { toMatchDiffSnapshot } = require('snapshot-diff');

expect.extend({ toMatchDiffSnapshot });

test('snapshot difference between 2 strings', () => {
  expect(a).toMatchDiffSnapshot(b);
});

const React = require('react');
const Component = require('./Component');

test('snapshot difference between 2 React components state', () => {
  expect(<Component test="say" />).toMatchDiffSnapshot(
    <Component test="my name" />
  );
});

Produced snapshot:

exports[`snapshot difference between 2 strings 1`] = `
"- First value
+ Second value


-  abcx
+  abcy
   "
`;

exports[`snapshot difference between 2 React components state 1`] = `
"- <Component test=\\"say\\" />
+ <Component test=\\"my name\\" />

@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
   <span />
   <span />
   <span />
   <span />
   <span>
-    say
+    my name
   </span>
   <span />
   <span />
   <span />
   <span />"
`;

Snapshot serializer

By default Jest adds extra quotes around strings so it makes diff snapshots of objects too noisy. To fix this – snapshot-diff comes with custom serializer, which you can add directly in your tests or in setupFiles script:

const snapshotDiff = require('snapshot-diff');

expect.addSnapshotSerializer(snapshotDiff.getSnapshotDiffSerializer());

test('snapshot difference between 2 objects', () => {
  expect(snapshotDiff({ foo: 'bar' }, { foo: 'baz' })).toMatchSnapshot();
});

...or add it globally to your jest config:

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  snapshotSerializers: [
    require.resolve('snapshot-diff/serializer.js'),
  ],
};

API

type Options = {
  expand?: boolean,
  colors?: boolean,
  contextLines?: number
};

// default export
snapshotDiff(valueA: any, valueB: any, options?: Options) => string
// custom matcher
expect(valueA: any).toMatchDiffSnapshot(valueB: any, options?: Options, testName?: string) => void

Options

• expand: boolean (default: false) – expand the diff, so the whole information is preserved
• colors: boolean (default: false) – preserve color information from Jest diff
• contextLines: number (default: 5) - number of context lines to be shown at the beginning and at the end of a snapshot
• aAnnotation: string (default: 'First Value') - the annotation indicating from which serialization the - lines are
• bAnnotation: string (default: 'Second Value') - the annotation indicating from which serialization the + lines are

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Project is MIT-licensed. Pull Requests welcome!