Improve runAllTimers doc (it exhausts the micro-task queue) #8031
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Updates `jest.runAllTimers()` documentation to state that it also exhausts the micro-task queue (this is the case since commit 9d17ea9).
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Updated changelog and versionned docs. 📝 |
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| @@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ When this API is called, all pending micro-tasks that have been queued via `proc | |||
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| ### `jest.runAllTimers()` | |||
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| Exhausts the **macro**-task queue (i.e., all tasks queued by `setTimeout()`, `setInterval()`, and `setImmediate()`). | |||
| Exhausts both the **macro**-task queue (i.e., all tasks queued by `setTimeout()`, `setInterval()`, and `setImmediate()`) and the **micro**-task queue (usually interfaced in node via `process.nextTick`). | |||
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While we're at enumerating examples, let's add Promises next to process.nextTick as they're used way more often and
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By default, we don't exhaust it though - only if you've replaced Promise with a fake one
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Oh, that's a good point 🙈 we should at some point tho
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Updates
jest.runAllTimers()documentation to state that it alsoexhausts the micro-task queue (this is the case since commit 9d17ea9).
Summary
Since #3915,
jest.runAllTimers()is a superset ofjest.runAllTicks(), but this is not explained in the documentation.Maybe this is implicit, but this was not clear to me until I came across #3915, so this is why I suggest this change. 🙂