Unit Testing React without Jest Jest is clearly a polished testing tool, but with the advent of Node.js 18, we really don't need it any more. Jest also has a huge surface area, is perhaps inexorably linked to Webpack, and needs its own binary—you can't just "run the tests" as a script. So it has some modern challenges. This blog post will teach you how to set up your code, rather than provide an all-in-one solution, and is not about React testing itself—just the environment where you can ...