<palign="center">The next-gen test runner for Jest</p>
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## Overview
Circus is a flux-based test runner for Jest that is fast, maintainable, and simple to extend.
Circus allows you to bind to events via an optional event handler on any [custom environment](https://jestjs.io/docs/en/configuration#testenvironment-string). See the [type definitions](https://github.com/facebook/jest/blob/master/packages/jest-circus/src/types.ts) for more information on the events and state data currently available.
```js
import NodeEnvironment from 'jest-environment-node';
import {Event, State} from 'jest-circus';
class MyCustomEnvironment extends NodeEnvironment {
Mutating event or state data is currently unsupported and may cause unexpected behavior or break in a future release without warning. New events, event data, and/or state data will not be considered a breaking change and may be added in any minor release.
Note, that `jest-circus` test runner would pause until a promise returned from `handleTestEvent` gets fulfilled. **However, there are a few events that do not conform to this rule, namely**: `start_describe_definition`, `finish_describe_definition`, `add_hook`, `add_test` or `error` (for the up-to-date list you can look at [SyncEvent type in the types definitions](https://github.com/facebook/jest/tree/master/packages/jest-types/src/Circus.ts)). That is caused by backward compatibility reasons and `process.on('unhandledRejection', callback)` signature, but that usually should not be a problem for most of the use cases.