I am using @storybook/react 6 in a create-react-app project.

I have thousands of tests and mocks for all my stores/objects and so on.

These mocks make use of jest.fn().

I would like to reuse these mocks in my storybook stories but it says jest is not defined which makes sense.

I am wondering if there is an easy way to make jest globally available when running storybook.

Currently I am adding import jest from 'jest-mock' in every mock file that I use but I am wondering if there is a better solution.

Example:

test.stories.tsx

import React from 'react';

export default {
  title: 'Test'
};

export Test = () => <button onClick={jest.fn()}>Test</button>;

Will pile but won't run -> jest is not defined error

import React from 'react';
import jest from 'jest-mock';

export default {
  title: 'Test'
};

export Test = () => <button onClick={jest.fn()}>Test</button>;

Works fine but I would like to avoid having to import jest-mock everywhere.

I am using @storybook/react 6 in a create-react-app project.

I have thousands of tests and mocks for all my stores/objects and so on.

These mocks make use of jest.fn().

I would like to reuse these mocks in my storybook stories but it says jest is not defined which makes sense.

I am wondering if there is an easy way to make jest globally available when running storybook.

Currently I am adding import jest from 'jest-mock' in every mock file that I use but I am wondering if there is a better solution.

Example:

test.stories.tsx

import React from 'react';

export default {
  title: 'Test'
};

export Test = () => <button onClick={jest.fn()}>Test</button>;

Will pile but won't run -> jest is not defined error

import React from 'react';
import jest from 'jest-mock';

export default {
  title: 'Test'
};

export Test = () => <button onClick={jest.fn()}>Test</button>;

Works fine but I would like to avoid having to import jest-mock everywhere.

• javascript
• reactjs
• jestjs
• create-react-app
• storybook

2 Answers 2

You can ensure the mock will be available in all your stories by adding the following lines to the preview.js file in your project's .storybook folder:

import jest from 'jest-mock';
window.jest = jest;

From the Storybook docs:

Use preview.js for global code (such as CSS imports or JavaScript mocks) that applies to all stories.

Import jest from storybook

import {jest} from '@storybook/jest'

const mockFunction = jest.fn()
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