The goal is to get Jasmine specs running in a Rails project using Webpacker, with the browser based test runner. Should be easily adaptable to a pure Webpack setup.

Step 1: Install Jasmine

yarn...

To check if a method has been called in Jasmine, you first need to spy on it:

let spy = spyOn(window, 'alert')
codeThatAlerts()
expect(window.alert).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Important message')

To expect an object of a given type, pass th...

Set the hash to a dummy hash which doesn't hit any id at your page, for example:

window.location.hash = "_";

Note

• If you'd set the hash to "" it causes the page to scroll to the top because the hash "#" by itself is equivalent...

To test that an object was constructed by a given constructor function, use jasmine.any(Klass):

describe('plus()', function() {
  it ('returns a number', function() {
    let result = plus(1, 2)
    expect(result).toEqual(jasmine....