Suggest Vitest as an option for Angular apps/libraries

[yjaaidi]

TL;DR: @nx/angular:application and @nx/angular:library generators should suggest Vitest as an option for testing.

Just as Nx played an important role in popularizing Jest in the Angular community, it is probably time for Nx to do the same for Vitest.

Luckily, @brandonroberts and the Analog team did a great job to successfully bridge the gap between Angular and Vite ecosystem with @analogjs/vite-plugin-angular and @analogjs/vitest-angular.

I'll be happy to submit a PR.

[juristr]

I like the idea 👍

[pavankjadda]

+1

[ErickRodrCodes]

If bridged properly with Vite thanks to Analog, Imagine what people can do : like, electron applications built on Angular through Vite. +1 with this

[brandonroberts]

I think @joshuamorony is already doing this 👀

[Yberion]

+1 for sure!

[luishcastroc]

This is a great idea I’m in

[gergobergo]

I really like the idea, especially since Karma is deprecated, and other than Jest you don't have any proper (not deprecated) option for testing.

[polroyal]

I like the idea

[jase88]

Would be a huge win for the Angular (testing) ecosystem!

[brandonroberts]

I'm excited to see this move forward. Until then, for anyone who wants to try out the @analogjs/vitest-angular package, use the Nx generator.

npm install @analogjs/platform --save-dev

ng g @analogjs/platform:setup-vitest --project [your-project-name]

Full guide - https://analogjs.org/docs/features/testing/vitest#using-a-schematicgenerator

[the-ult]

Created a follow-up feature-request for the @nx/vite plugin:

• Support angular with @nx/vite (configuration) plugin #28952