Smack-my-jasmine-up NPM

What is this?

This is a very hacky solution to this issue on Jasmine's GitHub.

Jasmine's devs did a tremendous job making it difficult to get any information about the current test execution environment. In my opinion, this is a design flaw.

Please use it with care and good intentions.

How does it work?

it and fit are overriden like in Pyrolistical's comment
spec's name is assigned to a global variable
assertion closure runs
spec's name is unassigned

How do I use it?

Unit testing

First, add the project as a test dependency in package.json file (see most recent version in npm):

"devDependencies": {
    "smack-my-jasmine-up": "^version"
    ...
}

Next, import JasmineSmacker in your test file (or any class that runs within a test):

const JasmineSmacker = require('smack-my-jasmine-up');

Finally, fetch the test case's name and use it for whatever reason:

const currentTestName = JasmineSmacker.getCurrentTestName();
if (currentTestName !== undefined) {
    console.log(`cool, we are within ${currentTestName}!`)
}