vitest-coverage-report-action

This GitHub Action reports vitest coverage results as a GitHub step-summary and as a comment on a pull request.

The action generates a high-level coverage summary for all coverage categories, as well as a detailed, file-based report. The report includes links to the files themselves and the uncovered lines for easy reference.

Usage

To use this action, you need to configure vitest to create a coverage report with the following reporters:

• json-summary (required): This reporter generates a high-level summary of your overall coverage.
• json (optional): If provided, this reporter generates file-specific coverage reports for each file in your project.

You can configure the reporters in your Vite configuration file (e.g., vite.config.js) as follows:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';

export default defineConfig({
  test: {
    coverage: {
      // you can include other reporters, but 'json-summary' is required, json is recommended
      reporter: ['text', 'json-summary', 'json'],
      // If you want a coverage reports even if your tests are failing, include the reportOnFailure option
      reportOnFailure: true,
    }
  }
});

Then execute npx vitest --coverage.enabled true in a step before this action.

Example Workflow

name: 'Test'
on: 
  pull_request:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    permissions:
      # Required to checkout the code
      contents: read
      # Required to put a comment into the pull-request
      pull-requests: write

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - name: 'Install Node'
      uses: actions/setup-node@v4
      with:
        node-version: '20.x'
    - name: 'Install Deps'
      run: npm install
    - name: 'Test'
      run: npx vitest --coverage.enabled true
    - name: 'Report Coverage'
      # Set if: always() to also generate the report if tests are failing
      # Only works if you set `reportOnFailure: true` in your vite config as specified above
      if: always() 
      uses:  davelosert/vitest-coverage-report-action@v2

Note

To enable comments on pull requests originating from forks, please refer to the configuration provided in the Working with Pull Requests from Forks section.

Required Permissions

This action requires the pull-request: write permission to add a comment to your pull request. If you're using the default GITHUB_TOKEN, ensure that you include both pull-request: write and contents: read permissions in the job. The contents: read permission is necessary for the actions/checkout action to checkout the repository. This is particularly important for new repositories created after GitHub's announcement to change the default permissions to read-only for all new GITHUB_TOKENs.

Options

Option	Description	Default
working-directory	The main path to search for coverage- and configuration files (adjusting this is especially useful in monorepos).	./
json-summary-path	The path to the json summary file.	${working-directory}/coverage/coverage-summary.json
json-final-path	The path to the json final file.	${working-directory}/coverage/coverage-final.json
vite-config-path	The path to the vite config file. Will check the same paths as vite and vitest	Checks pattern ${working-directory}/vite[st].config.{t|mt|ct|j|mj|cj}s
github-token	A GitHub access token with permissions to write to issues (defaults to secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN).	${{ github.token }}
file-coverage-mode	Defines how file-based coverage is reported. Possible values are all, changes or none.	changes
name	Give the report a custom name. This is useful if you want multiple reports for different test suites within the same PR. Needs to be unique.	''
json-summary-compare-path	The path to the json summary file to compare against. If given, will display a trend indicator and the difference in the summary. Respects the working-directory option.	undefined

File Coverage Mode

• changes - show Files coverage only for project files changed in that pull request (works only with pull_request, pull_request_review, pull_request_review_comment actions)
• all - show it grouped by changed and not changed files in that pull request (works only with pull_request, pull_request_review, pull_request_review_comment actions)
• none - do not show any File coverage details (only total Summary)

Name

If your project includes multiple test suites and you want to consolidate their coverage reports into a single pull request comment, you must assign a unique name to each action step that parses a summary report. For example:

## ...
    - name: 'Report Frontend Coverage'
      if: always() # Also generate the report if tests are failing
      uses:  davelosert/vitest-coverage-report-action@v2
      with:
        name: 'Frontend'
        json-summary-path: './coverage/coverage-summary-frontend.json'
        json-final-path: './coverage/coverage-final-frontend.json
    - name: 'Report Backend Coverage'
      if: always() # Also generate the report if tests are failing
      uses:  davelosert/vitest-coverage-report-action@v2
      with:
        name: 'Backend'
        json-summary-path: './coverage/coverage-summary-backend.json'
        json-final-path: './coverage/coverage-final-backend.json'

Coverage Thresholds

This action reads the coverage thresholds specified in the coverage property of the Vite configuration file. It then uses these thresholds to determine the status of the generated report.

For instance, consider the following configuration:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';

export default defineConfig({
  test: {
    coverage: {
      thresholds: {
        lines: 60,
        branches: 60,
        functions: 60,
        statements: 60
      }
    }
  }
});

With the above configuration, the report would appear as follows:

If no thresholds are defined, the status will display as '🔵'.

Coverage Trend Indicator

By using the json-summary-compare-path option, the action will display both a trend indicator and the coverage difference in the summary. This feature is particularly useful for tracking changes between the main branch and a previous run.

The most straightforward method to obtain the comparison file within a pull request is to run the tests and generate the coverage for the target branch within a matrix job:

name: "Test"
on:
  pull_request:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        branch:
          - ${{ github.head_ref }}
          - "main"

    permissions:
      # Required to checkout the code
      contents: read

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          ref: ${{ matrix.branch }}
      - name: "Install Node"
        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: "20.x"
      - name: "Install Deps"
        run: npm install
      - name: "Test"
        run: npx vitest --coverage.enabled true
      - name: "Upload Coverage"
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage-${{ matrix.branch }}
          path: coverage

  report-coverage:
    needs: test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: "Download Coverage Artifacts"
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage-${{ github.head_ref }}
          path: coverage
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: coverage-main
          path: coverage-main
      - name: "Report Coverage"
        uses: davelosert/vitest-coverage-report-action@v2
        with:
          json-summary-compare-path: coverage-main/coverage-summary.json

Workspaces

If you're using a monorepo with Vitest Workspaces and running Vitest from your project's root, Vitest will disregard the coverage property in individual project-level Vite configuration files. This is because some configuration options, such as coverage, apply to the entire workspace and are not allowed in a project config.

In such cases, you can create a Vite configuration file at the root of your project, alongside your vitest.workspace.js file, to configure coverage for the entire workspace:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite';

export default defineConfig({
  test: {
    coverage: {
      // you can include other reporters, but 'json-summary' is required, json is recommended
      reporter: ['text', 'json-summary', 'json'],
    }
  }
});

Alternatively, you can supply coverage options directly to the CLI using dot notation:

npx vitest --coverage.enabled --coverage.provider=v8 --coverage.reporter=json-summary --coverage.reporter=json

Working with pull requests from forks

Due to security considerations, GitHub Actions does not provide workflows originating from a fork with write access to your repository, even if such permissions are configured. Consequently, this action cannot comment on these pull requests using the above-documented configuration.

For more information on why this is the case, refer to the following article: Preventing Pwn-Requests.

However, you can circumvent this limitation by dividing your workflow into two separate workflows (see examples below):

1. Testing Workflow: This workflow runs tests in response to the pull_request trigger, within the context of the actual pull request, and uploads the coverage reports as artifacts.

2. Reporting Workflow: This workflow is triggered upon the completion of the Testing Workflow using the workflow_runs event. It downloads and parses the coverage report, and posts a comment on the pull request.

Important

The Reporting Workflow must reside within your default branch (as specified in GitHub's workflow_run documentation)

This action will automatically detect:

• If it is being run within a workflow_run trigger
• If the triggering workflow was a pull request

It will then automatically locate the appropriate pull request to comment on.

Example

• test.yml

  name: "Test"
  on:
    pull_request:
  
  jobs:
    test:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  
      permissions:
        contents: read
  
      steps:
        - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        - name: "Install Node"
          uses: actions/setup-node@v4
          with:
            node-version: "20.x"
        - name: "Install Deps"
          run: npm install
        - name: "Test"
          run: npx vitest --coverage.enabled true
  
        - name: "Upload Coverage"
          uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
          with:
            name: coverage
            path: coverage

• coverage.yml (has to be on the default branch)

  name: Report Coverage
  
  on:
    workflow_run:
      workflows: ["Test"]
      types:
        - completed
  
  jobs:
    report:
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  
      permissions:
        pull-requests: write
  
      steps:
        - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
          with:
            github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
            run-id: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.id }}
        - name: "Report Coverage"
          uses: davelosert/vitest-coverage-report-action@v2

Note

This configuration also works for pull requests originating from your own repository (not forks), so it can be used generally.

Limitations & Considerations

This approach has a few limitations:

• The Reporting Workflow is only triggered after the Testing Workflow completes. As a result, there will be a (most likely neglectable) delay before a comment appears on the pull request.
• To obtain the pull request number from a forked pull request, it's necessary to iterate over all pull requests in the repository using the Pulls REST API and match it by the head_sha. This is due to the github context of the triggering workflow not containing the pull request information (see this discussion). While this is generally not an issue, it could cause delays if the repository is large and the pull request is significantly old.
• Since the Reporting Workflow runs in the context of your repository's default branch, changes to your coverage threshold won't be reflected in the pull request comment. This can be mitigated by also uploading the Vite config as an artifact in the Testing Workflow.