Console spies

Console spying lives behind the vitest-auto-spy/console subpath. Importing the entry (in a test file or your Vitest setup file) replaces console.debug / error / info / log / time / timeEnd / trace / warn with silent, fully-typed spies and exports each one ready to assert — no vi.spyOn(console, 'info') boilerplate in every suite, no log output polluting the test run:

import { consoleInfoSpy, consoleWarnSpy } from 'vitest-auto-spy/console';

service.doWork();

expect(consoleInfoSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('done');
expect(consoleWarnSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();

Exports

One spy per patched method: consoleDebugSpy, consoleErrorSpy, consoleInfoSpy, consoleLogSpy, consoleTimeSpy, consoleTimeEndSpy, consoleTraceSpy, consoleWarnSpy (type ConsoleMethodSpy).

Housekeeping

import { installConsoleSpies, resetConsoleSpies, restoreConsole } from 'vitest-auto-spy/console';

resetConsoleSpies(); // clear the recorded calls (Vitest's `clearMocks: true` does this per test)
restoreConsole(); // put the original console methods back
installConsoleSpies(); // re-install after a restore (idempotent otherwise)

• resetConsoleSpies() clears recorded calls but keeps the spies installed. With clearMocks: true in your Vitest config this happens automatically before each test.
• restoreConsole() undoes the patching entirely and forgets the installed spies.
• installConsoleSpies() returns the full ConsoleSpies bag; calling it while spies are installed returns the same bag.

Runtimes

The spies are built on the registered MockAdapter, not on vi.spyOn directly — import your runtime entry (vitest-auto-spy/bun, vitest-auto-spy/node) beforevitest-auto-spy/console and the console spies are driven by that runner's mocks. With no prior runtime entry, the default Vitest adapter is registered.

Fully detached alternative

Prefer not to touch the real global? createAutoMock<Console>() gives you a typed, in-memory console to inject into code that takes a logger:

import { createAutoMock } from 'vitest-auto-spy';

const fakeConsole = createAutoMock<Console>();
const service = new ReportService(fakeConsole);

service.doWork();

expect(fakeConsole.info).toHaveBeenCalledWith('done');