vitest — community vitest, tool-box, community, ide skills

v2026.1.28

About this Skill

Ideal for JavaScript Agents seeking fast and efficient testing solutions with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support. Vitest fast unit testing framework powered by Vite with Jest-compatible API. Use when writing tests, mocking, configuring coverage, or working with test filtering and fixtures.

DanielShuguang DanielShuguang
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Updated: 3/8/2026

Killer-Skills Review

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Ideal for JavaScript Agents seeking fast and efficient testing solutions with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support. Vitest fast unit testing framework powered by Vite with Jest-compatible API. Use when writing tests, mocking, configuring coverage, or working with test filtering and fixtures.

Core Value

Empowers agents to leverage Vite's transformation pipeline for fast HMR-like test updates, utilizing Jest-compatible APIs and smart watch modes that only rerun affected tests based on module graphs, all while supporting native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX.

Ideal Agent Persona

Ideal for JavaScript Agents seeking fast and efficient testing solutions with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support.

Capabilities Granted for vitest

Automating testing for Vite applications with Jest-compatible test suites
Debugging JavaScript applications using Vitest's smart watch mode
Optimizing test suites for faster execution with Vitest's native ESM support

! Prerequisites & Limits

  • Requires Vite configuration and setup
  • Limited to JavaScript and TypeScript projects

Why this page is reference-only

  • - The underlying skill quality score is below the review floor.

Source Boundary

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What is vitest?

Ideal for JavaScript Agents seeking fast and efficient testing solutions with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support. Vitest fast unit testing framework powered by Vite with Jest-compatible API. Use when writing tests, mocking, configuring coverage, or working with test filtering and fixtures.

How do I install vitest?

Run the command: npx killer-skills add DanielShuguang/tool-box. It works with Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Claude Code, and 19+ other IDEs.

What are the use cases for vitest?

Key use cases include: Automating testing for Vite applications with Jest-compatible test suites, Debugging JavaScript applications using Vitest's smart watch mode, Optimizing test suites for faster execution with Vitest's native ESM support.

Which IDEs are compatible with vitest?

This skill is compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Trae, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Aider, Codex, OpenCode, Goose, Cline, Roo Code, Kiro, Augment Code, Continue, GitHub Copilot, Sourcegraph Cody, and Amazon Q Developer. Use the Killer-Skills CLI for universal one-command installation.

Are there any limitations for vitest?

Requires Vite configuration and setup. Limited to JavaScript and TypeScript projects.

How To Install

  1. 1. Open your terminal

    Open the terminal or command line in your project directory.

  2. 2. Run the install command

    Run: npx killer-skills add DanielShuguang/tool-box. The CLI will automatically detect your IDE or AI agent and configure the skill.

  3. 3. Start using the skill

    The skill is now active. Your AI agent can use vitest immediately in the current project.

! Reference-Only Mode

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Upstream Repository Material

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Upstream Source

vitest

Install vitest, an AI agent skill for AI agent workflows and automation. Review the use cases, limitations, and setup path before rollout.

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Supporting Evidence

Vitest is a next-generation testing framework powered by Vite. It provides a Jest-compatible API with native ESM, TypeScript, and JSX support out of the box. Vitest shares the same config, transformers, resolvers, and plugins with your Vite app.

Key Features:

  • Vite-native: Uses Vite's transformation pipeline for fast HMR-like test updates
  • Jest-compatible: Drop-in replacement for most Jest test suites
  • Smart watch mode: Only reruns affected tests based on module graph
  • Native ESM, TypeScript, JSX support without configuration
  • Multi-threaded workers for parallel test execution
  • Built-in coverage via V8 or Istanbul
  • Snapshot testing, mocking, and spy utilities

The skill is based on Vitest 3.x, generated at 2026-01-28.

Core

TopicDescriptionReference
ConfigurationVitest and Vite config integration, defineConfig usagecore-config
CLICommand line interface, commands and optionscore-cli
Test APItest/it function, modifiers like skip, only, concurrentcore-test-api
Describe APIdescribe/suite for grouping tests and nested suitescore-describe
Expect APIAssertions with toBe, toEqual, matchers and asymmetric matcherscore-expect
HooksbeforeEach, afterEach, beforeAll, afterAll, aroundEachcore-hooks

Features

TopicDescriptionReference
MockingMock functions, modules, timers, dates with vi utilitiesfeatures-mocking
SnapshotsSnapshot testing with toMatchSnapshot and inline snapshotsfeatures-snapshots
CoverageCode coverage with V8 or Istanbul providersfeatures-coverage
Test ContextTest fixtures, context.expect, test.extend for custom fixturesfeatures-context
ConcurrencyConcurrent tests, parallel execution, shardingfeatures-concurrency
FilteringFilter tests by name, file patterns, tagsfeatures-filtering

Advanced

TopicDescriptionReference
Vi Utilitiesvi helper: mock, spyOn, fake timers, hoisted, waitForadvanced-vi
EnvironmentsTest environments: node, jsdom, happy-dom, customadvanced-environments
Type TestingType-level testing with expectTypeOf and assertTypeadvanced-type-testing
ProjectsMulti-project workspaces, different configs per projectadvanced-projects

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