Simplifying testing performance
npm install test-performance
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test-performance is a package designed to simplify testing performance.
Performance is notoriously difficult to test in a meaningful way. It varies by network, machine, and all sorts of circumstances outside our control. And it's affected by our psychology; a page that loads something quickly feels faster even if it is just a skeleton of how the page will look.
That doesn't change the fact that performance is meaningful, and we shouldn't disregard it because it's difficult.
This package distills performance down to a single millisecond score that it expects a function to take to run. It can't take in to account every machine, browser, or network, but it provides a baseline based on an average machine, that we can test against.
I would recommend using this more in integration than unit tests, unless you are confident that you have a distinct unit that is a bottleneck.
Add to your project using npm i -D test-performance
``javascript
import getPerformanceScore from 'test-performance';
const expectedPerformanceInMs = await getPerformanceScore(() => 1 + 1);
// returns the expected number of ms that the function will take to run on an average machine
``