Mocking globals in Jest
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();
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 });