5 Best unit testing tools: Every JavaScript developer must know.

Rhea RB
2 min readJan 7, 2023

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Unit Testing is time consuming and is often boring for developers, but it is super important to test the code, to determine errors if any.

There are many tools available to automate unit testing.

Here are 5 wonderful tools to test the code.

Jest
Jest is a testing framework developed by facebook for testing Javascript code including Node, React, Vue and Angular applications.
It is fast and has a powerful feature set, it includes the ability to take dependencies and simulate events.

Link : https://jestjs.io/

MochaJs
Mocha is a Javascript test framework that is designed to be simple and flexible.
It can be used for testing Nodejs and brower related apps along with libraries like Chai.

Link : https://mochajs.org/

Karma
Karma is a test runner for JavaScript that you can use for testing browser based applications.
It can easily be paired with other testing libraries such as Mocha or Jasmine and integrated with a range of testing and assertion API’s

Link: https://github.com/karma-runner/karma

Jasmine
Jasmine is a behavior driven development testing framework for JavaScript.
It is designed to be simple and easy to use and provides a clean and intuitive syntax for writing tests.

Link: https://jasmine.github.io/

Chai
Chai is library that can be used with Mocha, Jasmine and Karma to perform assertions.
It provides a simple and intuitive API for making such assertions about the behavior of your code and has a number of useful features.

Link: https://www.chaijs.com/

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Rhea RB

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