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Professional React Native

By : Alexander Benedikt Kuttig
Book Image

Professional React Native

By: Alexander Benedikt Kuttig

Overview of this book

The React Native framework offers a range of powerful features that make it possible to efficiently build high-quality, easy-to-maintain frontend applications across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and the web, helping you save both time and money. And this book is your key to unlocking its capabilities. Professional React Native provides the ultimate coverage of essential concepts, best practices, advanced processes, and tips for everyday developer problems. The book makes it easy to understand how React Native works under the hood using step-by-step explanations and practical examples so you can use this knowledge to develop highly performant apps. As you follow along, you'll learn the difference between React and React Native, navigate the React Native ecosystem, and revisit the basics of JavaScript and TypeScript needed to create a React Native application. What’s more, you’ll work with animations and even control your app with gestures. Finally, you'll be able to structure larger apps and improve developer efficiency through automated processes, testing, and continuous integration. By the end of this React native app development book, you'll have gained the confidence to build high-performance apps for multiple platforms, even on a bigger scale.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with React Native
5
Part 2: Building World-Class Apps with React Native
12
Part 3: React Native in Large-Scale Projects and Organizations

Working with unit and integration tests in React Native

When you start a new React Native project, it comes with a testing framework called Jest preconfigured. This is the recommended framework for unit tests, integration tests, and component tests. We’ll use it in the following sections.

Let’s start with unit testing. We’ll use our example project again, but we will go back a few commits to use the local movie service implementation. You can have a look at the complete code by selecting the chapter-12-unit-testing branch in the example repository.

This local service implementation is very suitable as an example for unit testing because it has no dependencies. We know the data it is working on and can write tests very easily. In this example, we’ll test two API calls: getMovies and getMovieById.

The following code shows our first unit tests:

import {getMovies,getMovieById} from '../src/services/movieService';
describe('testing...