Jest 30: jest.genMockFromModule removed — use jest.createMockFromModule; jest.SpyInstance type → jest.Spied
// before (Jest 29)
const mockFs = jest.genMockFromModule('fs');
let spy: jest.SpyInstance;
// after (Jest 30)
const mockFs = jest.createMockFromModule('fs');
let spy: jest.Spied<typeof obj.method>;
The behaviour of createMockFromModule is the same as the old function.
Symptom
After upgrading to Jest 30, jest.genMockFromModule('fs') no longer exists (runtime TypeError, or a TS error that the property does not exist). Code that annotates spies as jest.SpyInstance with import { jest } from '@jest/globals' fails to type-check.
Cause
Jest 30.0.0 (2025-06-04) removed the long-deprecated jest.genMockFromModule() (PR #15042). It also removed the public types MockFunctionMetadata, MockFunctionMetadataType and SpyInstance from the @jest/globals API. Jest 30 also requires TypeScript 5.4+ for its type definitions and Node 18+.
Verify
grep -rn genMockFromModule . returns nothing outside node_modules, and tsc --noEmit passes with TypeScript >= 5.4.
Sources
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