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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

By : Daniel Irvine
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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

By: Daniel Irvine

Overview of this book

Many programmers are aware of TDD but struggle to apply it beyond basic examples. This book teaches how to build complex, real-world applications using Test-Driven Development (TDD). It takes a first principles approach to the TDD process using plain Jest and includes test-driving the integration of libraries including React Router, Redux, and Relay (GraphQL). Readers will practice systematic refactoring while building out their own test framework, gaining a deep understanding of TDD tools and techniques. They will learn how to test-drive features such as client- and server-side form validation, data filtering and searching, navigation and user workflow, undo/redo, animation, LocalStorage access, WebSocket communication, and querying GraphQL endpoints. The book covers refactoring codebases to use the React Router and Redux libraries. via TDD. Redux is explored in depth, with reducers, middleware, sagas, and connected React components. The book also covers acceptance testing using Cucumber and Puppeteer. The book is fully up to date with React 16.9 and has in-depth coverage of hooks and the ‘act’ test helper.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: First Principles of TDD
6
Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
12
Section 3: Interactivity
16
Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD

Writing your first Cucumber test

If you're reading an electronic version of this book, be careful copying and pasting sections, as you may lose formatting. Cucumber feature files are sensitive to indenting. The default indent is two spaces at each level.

We'll learn about Cucumber as we walk through an example:

  1. Before we begin, it's important to ensure that your build output is up to date. Your Cucumber specs are going to run against the code built in the dist directory, not your source in the src directory. Invoke npm run build to make sure that happens. You'll need to remember to do this each time you modify your source files.
You could also modify your package.json to invoke a build before Cucumber specs are run, or to run Webpack in watch mode. See the Further learning section for a link.
  1. Open the file features/sharing.feature and enter the following...