Japa Testing Skill

AdonisJS uses Japa — a backend testing framework built and maintained by the AdonisJS team. Unlike Jest/Vitest, Japa runs natively in Node.js without transpilers and has plugins specifically designed for backend testing.

Suites and structure

tests/
├── bootstrap.ts          # plugins, hooks, suite config
├── unit/                 # fast in-process tests
└── browser/              # end-to-end with Playwright

Suites defined in adonisrc.ts: