Documentation

Everything about Jest Runner for VS Code in detail: how to install and use it, what it reads from each test framework, every setting, and how the extension works inside. The short overview is the README on GitHub. Also as a website with search: https://firsttris.github.io/vscode-jest-runner/

User Guide

Getting Started	Install, open a project, run your first test, enable the Test Explorer
Running & Debugging Tests	CodeLens, Test Explorer, context menus, commands, keyboard shortcuts, watch mode, snapshots, coverage
Supported Test Frameworks	Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Rstest, Bun, Deno, Node.js: how each is detected, which config options are read, how coverage and debugging work
Settings Reference	Every jestrunner.* setting with defaults and examples
Recipes	Create React App, nvm, ESM, monorepos, several configs, Windows shells, custom commands
Troubleshooting & FAQ	Tests not found, wrong framework, debug logs, known limits of the config parser

Internals

Architecture	The big picture: three entry points, the detection pipeline, command building, process execution, result matching
Test Detection	How a file is classified as a test of one framework, the caches, config path resolution
Config File Parsing	The static AST parser for jest.config.*, vitest.config.*, playwright.config.*, rstest.config.*, deno.json
Test File Parsing	How describe, it, test, it.each and Deno.test become a test tree with positions
Command Building & Execution	Framework adapters, argument strategies, the terminal path, the spawn path, Windows handling
Reporters & Result Matching	The structured output protocol, the injected reporters, JSON, JUnit and TAP fallbacks, matching results to test items
Test Explorer	Discovery, the test item tree, file and config watchers, run profiles
Debugging	How the debug configuration is assembled for each framework
Coverage	Istanbul JSON and LCOV, coverage directory detection, mapping to the VS Code coverage API
Module Reference	Every source file in one table: what it does and who uses it
Development & Release	Build, test, lint, debug the extension, CI, release process, project conventions