The Jasmine Package

The jasmine package is a command line interface and supporting code for running Jasmine specs under Node.

The core of jasmine lives at https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine and is jasmine-core in npm.

Contents

This package allows you to run Jasmine specs for your Node.js code. The output will be displayed in your terminal by default.

Documentation

https://jasmine.github.io/setup/nodejs.html

Quick Start

Installation:

npm install --save-dev jasmine

To initialize a project for Jasmine:

npx jasmine init
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To seed your project with some examples:

npx jasmine examples
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To run your test suite:

npx jasmine
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ES and CommonJS module compatibility

Jasmine is compatible with both ES modules and CommonJS modules. See the setup guide for more information.

Node version compatibility

Jasmine supports Node 18*, 20, 22, and 24.

* Environments that are past end of life are supported on a best-effort basis. They may be dropped in a future minor release of Jasmine if continued support becomes impractical.

Support

Documentation: jasmine.github.io
Please file issues here at GitHub.

Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Pivotal Labs
Copyright (c) 2014-2025 The Jasmine developers
This software is licensed under the MIT License.