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Building TypeScript 5 Unit Tests with Jest

by Daniel Stern

TypeScript applications offer improved type safety over JavaScript apps, but still require testing. This course will teach you to effectively test TypeScript applications using unit tests and Jest.

What you'll learn

As TypeScript applications grow in complexity, it becomes impractical to manually QA every aspect of the application at every release. In this course, Building TypeScript 5 Unit Tests with Jest, you’ll learn to create unit tests for application logic and components in TypeScript applications. First, you’ll explore the Jest API and configure it for TypeScript applications. Next, you’ll discover testing application logic. Finally, you’ll learn how to test web components. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Jest unit tests for TypeScript applications needed to contribute effectively to testing teams for serious, real-world applications.

About the author

Daniel Stern is a coder, web developer and programming enthusiast from Toronto, Ontario, where he works as a freelance developer and designer. Daniel has been working with web technologies since the days of the dial-up, and is especially keen on JavaScript, CSS, Angular, React and TypeScript. Over the course of his work as an open-source developer, he's created many community-standards web tools including Angular Audio and Range.CSS. His tool, Range.CSS, was featured in a guest article on CSS-T... more

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