Vitest 5: --reporter=json / junit write to .vitest/ files, not stdout — `vitest --reporter=json

Fix

Read the file, set an explicit path, or opt back into stdout:

vitest run --reporter=json --outputFile=report.json && jq . report.json

// vitest.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  test: { reporters: [['json', { stdout: true }]] },
})

Add .vitest to .gitignore and update CI artifact upload paths. Also note that unawaited async assertions (expect(p).resolves... without await) now fail the test instead of only warning.

Symptom

After upgrading to Vitest 5, CI steps like vitest run --reporter=json | jq ... or vitest --reporter=junit > report.xml get empty input. The HTML report is no longer at html/index.html, and failure screenshots are no longer in __screenshots__/.

Cause

Vitest 5.0 (2026-09-03) moved generated artifacts into one .vitest/ directory at the project root:

json reporter: stdout → .vitest/json/output.json
junit reporter: stdout → .vitest/junit/output.xml
html reporter: html/index.html → .vitest/index.html. Its option changed from outputFile to outputDir.
blob reports: .vitest-reports/ → .vitest/blob/
failure screenshots: __screenshots__/ → .vitest/attachments/failure-screenshots/ An explicit outputFile is still respected.

Verify

After vitest run --reporter=json, ls .vitest/json/output.json exists, or the stdout option prints JSON again.

Sources

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Vitest 5: --reporter=json / junit write to .vitest/ files, not stdout — `vitest --reporter=json | jq` gets nothing

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