Sometimes, we want to clear the Jest cache.

In this article, we’ll look at how to clear the Jest cache.

How to clear the Jest cache?

To clear the Jest cache, we can run jest with the --clearCache option.

We run

jest --clearCache

to clear the Jest cache.

Or we can put it in a script in package.json with

{
  //  ...
  "scripts:" {
    "clearJest": "jest --clearCache"
  }
  // ...
}

and run npm run clearJest

Conclusion

To clear the Jest cache, we can run jest with the --clearCache option.