Mocking globals in Jest

Question

Is there any way in Jest to mock global objects, such as navigator, or Image*? I\'ve pretty much given up on this, and left it up to a series of mo

Answer 1

The correct way of doing this is to use spyOn. The other answers here, even though they work, don't consider cleanup and pollute the global scope.

// beforeAll
jest
  .spyOn(window, 'navigator', 'get')
  .mockImplementation(() => { ... })

// afterAll
jest.restoreAllMocks();

Answer 2

Jest may have changed since the accepted answer was written, but Jest does not appear to reset your global after testing. Please see the testcases attached.

https://repl.it/repls/DecentPlushDeals

As far as I know, the only way around this is with an afterEach() or afterAll() to clean up your assignments to global.

let originalGlobal = global;
afterEach(() => {
  delete global.x;
})

describe('Scope 1', () => {
  it('should assign globals locally', () => {
    global.x = "tomato";
    expect(global.x).toBeTruthy()
  });  
});

describe('Scope 2', () => {
  it('should not remember globals in subsequent test cases', () => {
    expect(global.x).toBeFalsy();
  })
});

Answer 3

As every test suite run its own environment, you can mock globals by just overwriting them. All global variables can be accessed by the global namespace:

global.navigator = {
  onLine: true
}

The overwrite has only effects in your current test and will not effect others. This also a good way to handle Math.random or Date.now.

Note, that through some changes in jsdom it could be possible that you have to mock globals like this:

Object.defineProperty(globalObject, key, { value, writable: true });

Answer 4

If someone needs to mock a global with static properties then my example should help:

  beforeAll(() => {
    global.EventSource = jest.fn(() => ({
      readyState: 0,
      close: jest.fn()
    }))

    global.EventSource.CONNECTING = 0
    global.EventSource.OPEN = 1
    global.EventSource.CLOSED = 2
  })

Answer 5

If you are using react-testing-library and you use the cleanup method provided by the library, it will remove all global declarations made in that file once all tests in the file have run. This will then not carry over to any other tests run.

Example:

import { cleanup } from 'react-testing-library'

afterEach(cleanup)

global.getSelection = () => {

}

describe('test', () => {
  expect(true).toBeTruthy()
})