VitestEnglish
Command Line Interface
Commands
vitest
Start Vitest in the current directory. Will enter the watch mode in development environment and run mode in CI automatically.
You can pass a addition argument as the filter of the tests files to run. For example:
vitest foobar
vitest foobar
Will run only the test file that contains foobar in their paths.
vitest run
Perform a single run without watch mode.
vitest watch
Run all test suites but watch for changes and rerun tests when they change. Same as calling vitest without a command. Will fallback to vitest run in CI.
vitest dev
Alias to vitest watch.
vitest related
Run only tests that cover a list of source files. Works with static lazy imports, but not the dynamic ones. All files should be relative to root folder.
Useful to run with lint-staged or with your CI setup.
vitest related /src/index.ts /src/hello-world.js
vitest related /src/index.ts /src/hello-world.js
Options
| Options | |
|---|---|
-v, --version | Display version number |
-r, --root <path> | Define the project root |
-c, --config <path> | Path to config file |
-u, --update | Update snapshots |
-w, --watch | Smart & instant watch mode |
-t, --testNamePattern <pattern> | Run tests with full names matching the pattern |
--dir <path> | Base directory to scan for the test files |
--ui | Enable UI |
--open | Open the UI automatically if enabled (default: true) |
--api [api] | Serve API, available options: --api.port <port>, --api.host [host] and --api.strictPort |
--threads | Enable Threads (default: true) |
--silent | Silent console output from tests |
--isolate | Isolate environment for each test file (default: true) |
--reporter <name> | Select reporter: default, verbose, dot, junit, json, or a path to a custom reporter |
--outputTruncateLength <length> | Truncate output diff lines up to <length> number of characters. |
--outputDiffLines <lines> | Limit number of output diff lines up to <lines>. |
--outputFile <filename/-s> | Write test results to a file when the --reporter=json or --reporter=junit option is also specified Via [cac's dot notation] you can specify individual outputs for multiple reporters |
--coverage | Use c8 for coverage |
--run | Do not watch |
--mode | Override Vite mode (default: test) |
--mode <name> | Override Vite mode (default: test) |
--globals | Inject APIs globally |
--dom | Mock browser api with happy-dom |
--environment <env> | Runner environment (default: node) |
--passWithNoTests | Pass when no tests found |
--allowOnly | Allow tests and suites that are marked as only (default: false in CI, true otherwise) |
--changed [since] | Run tests that are affected by the changed files (default: false). See docs |
-h, --help | Display available CLI options |
changed
- Type:
boolean | string - Default: false
Run tests only against changed files. If no value is provided, it will run tests against uncommitted changes (including staged and unstaged).
To run tests against changes made in the last commit, you can use --changed HEAD~1. You can also pass commit hash or branch name.