ha-frontend-testing

Testing & Quality

Home Assistant frontend validation workflow. Use when running lint, TypeScript checks, Vitest, Playwright e2e suites, dev servers, or chart-data benchmarks.

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HA Frontend Testing

Use this skill when choosing or running validation for frontend changes.

Core Commands

yarn lint          # ESLint + Prettier + TypeScript + Lit
yarn format        # Auto-fix ESLint + Prettier
yarn lint:types    # TypeScript compiler, run without file arguments
yarn test          # Vitest
yarn dev           # App dev server
yarn dev:serve     # Local serving dev server

Never run tsc or yarn lint:types with file arguments. File arguments make tsc ignore tsconfig.json and can emit .js files into src/.

For focused type feedback on one file, use editor diagnostics instead of a file-scoped tsc command.

Unit And Utility Tests

Add or update Vitest tests for data processing, utility code, and behavior that can be tested without a browser.
Mock WebSocket connections and API calls at boundaries.
Cover loading, error, unavailable, and missing-entity states where relevant.
Test accessibility-sensitive behavior when it can be asserted without brittle DOM internals.

Dev Servers

yarn dev builds and watches the app, served by a running Home Assistant core configured through development_repo.

yarn dev:serve also serves locally and supports -c for the core URL and -p for the port. Default local serving port is 8124.

Dev server commands support --background, --status, --stop, and --logs [--follow].

Playwright E2E

Each suite has its own dev server port. Playwright reuses an existing server locally when the port is already running; otherwise it performs a slow full build. The rspack watcher recompiles on save, so reruns should not need a restart.

Start the relevant suite server, then run that suite:

Suite	Server	Test command
App	`yarn test:e2e:app:dev` on 8095	`yarn test:e2e:app`
Demo	`yarn dev:demo` on 8090	`yarn test:e2e:demo`
Gallery	`yarn dev:gallery` on 8100	`yarn test:e2e:gallery`

Server reuse and --stop use the /__ha_dev_status health check, so starting or stopping twice is harmless.

Use -g "<title>" --project=chromium to narrow a run. yarn test:e2e runs all three suites. Run suites directly; piping through output truncation hides progress and failures.

The app suite uses a stripped-down harness for e2e. Demo and gallery use their normal dev servers.

Benchmarks

For chart data transforms such as history, statistics, energy, and downsampling, follow test/benchmarks/README.md.

Use seeded fixtures, characterization snapshot tests, and yarn test:bench before and after optimization. Optimizations must keep output bit-identical.

Verification Selection

Documentation-only change: no code test required unless examples or commands changed.
Type-only or utility change: run focused Vitest if available, then yarn lint:types if practical.
Lit component change: run relevant tests plus lint or typecheck depending on scope.
E2E-sensitive flow: start the relevant e2e dev server and run the narrow Playwright suite.
Broad refactor: run yarn lint and relevant test suites when practical.