Echo JS 0.11.0

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MaxArt 2510 days ago. link parent 1 point ▲ ▼
It's an odd situation here.
While React - the library for which Jest was conceived - is basically just a virtual DOM library and so it's very basic, lately the community is shifting from the highly customizable and pluggable standard of tools (like Gulp, PostCSS or Mocha's ecosystem) to more battery-included solutions (like webpack and Jest) that relieve developers the burden of choosing, setting up and maintaining a boatload of plugins.
At least that's what I feel about the web dev community right now.

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tracker1 2510 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼
In the end, people will gather around in the box tooling, until something better enough to break out comes along.  In this case, Jest includes assertions, and the testing syntax isn't completely alien... it also offers integration of babel easily, and istanbul in the box.  Yeah, it's more configuration, but that isn't always a bad thing.

It's pretty cyclical... as things approach a good point of equilibrium.  As long as choice remains, and it's easy enough to change many things later...  I've seen things change out several times the past few years.  And some of the composite tooling seems to be using other tools under the covers, or you can use those alone.