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You might want to give ava a spin:
It has a TAP reporter, but more importantly, as opposed to the more popular solutions, like Jest, the way it achieves parallelism is explained in the docs and won't change anytime soon, thus preventing wonky, hard to debug errors which occur when this part is abstracted away.
I really enjoy Ava [1] or anything assert-tape-like [2]. "uvu" [3] is getting a lot of love lately, but it's very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set.
[1] https://github.com/avajs/ava
[2] https://github.com/substack/tape
[3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu
Jest is great for front-end (or full stack integration) testing, but I feel it's specialized for that use-case and doesn't always play nice with backend/middle-tier testing needs.
I know a fella working on a Deno port of Ava (https://github.com/avajs/ava). When that and Koa are ported or compatible, I'll be giving Deno a legitimate go.
Ava (https://github.com/avajs/ava) gets too little love from the blogging machinery. It's a breeze to use with TS, faster than Jest (YMMV of course), and I love the snapshot output over any other snapshot producing unit test tool. Use with NYC for coverage is a breeze.
I use AVA[1] and c8[2] for coverage. It only works in node so I have to use JSDOM to mimic the browser environment.
We ship Babel built in with the AVA[1] test runner and I can confirm `babel-require` is our bottleneck.