You can use expect.extend to add your own matchers to Jest. For example, let’s say that you’re testing a number utility library and you’re frequently asserting that numbers appear within particular ranges of other numbers. You could abstract that into a toBeWithinRange matcher:

expect.extend({
  toBeWithinRange(received, floor, ceiling) {
    const pass = received >= floor && received <= ceiling;
    if (pass) {
      return {
        message: () =>
          `expected ${received} not to be within range ${floor} - ${ceiling}`,
        pass: true,
      };
    } else {
      return {
        message: () =>
          `expected ${received} to be within range ${floor} - ${ceiling}`,
        pass: false,
      };
    }
  },
});

test('numeric ranges', () => {
  expect(100).toBeWithinRange(90, 110);
  expect(101).not.toBeWithinRange(0, 100);
  expect({apples: 6, bananas: 3}).toEqual({
    apples: expect.toBeWithinRange(1, 10),
    bananas: expect.not.toBeWithinRange(11, 20),
  });
});

Note: In TypeScript, when using @types/jest for example, you can declare the new toBeWithinRange matcher like this:

declare global {
  namespace jest {
    interface Matchers<R> {
      toBeWithinRange(a: number, b: number): R;
    }
  }
}