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

To seed your project with some examples:

npx jasmine examples

To run your test suite:

npx jasmine

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 18.20.5+*, 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.