Simplifying comparing BigNumber in tests

[pedrohba1]

So, bigNumber is a common way to represent values from solidity smart contracts. However it's not easy to make comparsions between big number using expect ou assert in hardhat tests.

I would like to be able to do something like:

expect(afterBalance).to.be.bignumber.greaterThan(beforeBalance);

I opened an issue about this, but there is no straight forward way to do it. I thought that maybe using chai-bignumber but it does not work.

I opened this discussion to find ideas on how to do it. How do you guys handle comparing bigNumber in tests? Is it possible to do something as I described?