Migrate back from Jest

[felixfbecker]

Every week I see problems caused by Jest. A non-exhaustive list:

• Jest keeps running the tests even if a beforeAll hook failed, which then produce all the noisy test failure logs, screenshots etc (e.g. Tracking Issue: Flaky CI builds #5721 (comment))
• Jest buffers console messages and prints them all at the top, instead of in between the logs for the test descriptions, which makes browser console logs and screenshots hard to tie to a test (e.g. e2e test failures are hard to debug #5722 (comment))
• Debugging doesn't work (doesn't show the right line/file where it's stopped in)
• Jest doesn't support module in package.json, which monaco uses https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/7669/files#diff-66d3521f5e9f81934077fdd6653d0901R29

I believe it might be better to migrate back to mocha (or a differrent test runner that doesn't have these problems).

Iirc the reasons to switch to Jest was mostly that there was more things that "just work" out of the box and docs on how to test React components with snapshot tests. However, it seems many of these things actually don't work correctly, and then you are faced with less flexibility to fix them. With mocha, these would take some effort to setup because they don't work out of the box, but would all be possible because mocha only concerns itself with running tests and everything else can be setup on top of it.

[keegancsmith]

For the beforeAll issue do these help? jasmine/jasmine#577 and jestjs/jest#2713

[beyang]

Using Jest Circus (as outlined in jestjs/jest#2713) fixed the beforeAll issue for me.

I'm happy to go with whatever option @felixfbecker thinks is best/quickest. I've also felt these pains.

[felixfbecker]

@beyang do you have a branch for switching to Jest Circus?