Testing with jest is an activity that developers do to keep the application maintainable and time proof. Therefore, learning a testing framework can be a consuming task, often it has many features to master. The assertion API usually is one of the most important ones, as this is the one that the developer uses the most during the TDD flow.
The gist of the assertion API is to compare values, as such the equals matcher is the most used. Being one of the most used can also point to a lack of knowledge in the different assertions that the testing framework offers.
This presentation aims to cover different assertions, to avoid using always toEqual and make the test case more expressive. For each example, I try to first depict how it would be with toEqual, then I show another way using a different assertion.