Picks best comparison / diff for snapshot value

Use this comparator function with snap-shot-core

Requires Node version 6 or above.

npm install --save snap-shot-compare

Compare returns a Folktale.Result object.

const compare = require('snap-shot-compare')
let result
// if values are equal
compare({
  expected: 42,
  value: 100
}).map(console.log)
// prints undefined

// if objects are different
compare({
  expected: {foo: 'foo'},
  value: {bar: 'bar'}
}).orElse(console.log)
// result has ANSI characters
// use "strip-ansi" to remove if desired
/*
snapshot difference
{
- foo: "foo"
+ bar: "bar"
}
*/

When showing the diff, - is for the lines removed, + means a line has been added.

There are a few secondary options that might not be consistent across all comparison modes (open a GitHub issue if an unexpected behavior is found)

compare({
  expected,
  value,
  noColor,  // strips ASCII color from diff message
  json      // returns error result as JSON object
            // with the following properties
            // {message, expected, value}
})

Note: json = true option means noColor = true automatically.

• Folktale.Result
• variable-diff to show diff between two objects
• disparity to show diff between multi line text

For longer text fragments, prints "expected" and "actual" values when showing the difference.

To see verbose logs run with environment variable

DEBUG=snap-shot-compare

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <gleb.bahmutov@gmail.com> © 2017

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

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