export JestAssertionError from expect

[paul23-git]

🚀 Feature Proposal

export JestAssertionError from expect to allow other packages to import it. This is a clone of #9919 as it's still relevant I think?

Motivation

Given that the expect package is modular and published as a standalone package on npm, I'm using it outside of jest and outside of tests. I'm currently trying to use it for implementing a custom mock server for a dev environment. To properly implement this, I need to distinguish expect exceptions from other exceptions, and thus need to do

if (err instanceof JestAssertionError) {}
However this is not currently possible seen as I can't import JestAssertionError from expect

Example

if (err instanceof JestAssertionError) {
  res.status(400).end()
} else {
  res.status(500).end()
}

Example

It can't come from anywhere else

Pitch

It can't come from anywhere else

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