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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

By : Juha Hinkula
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Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2.0 and React

By: Juha Hinkula

Overview of this book

Apart from knowing how to write frontend and backend code, a full-stack engineer has to tackle all the problems that are encountered in the application development life cycle, starting from a simple idea to UI design, the technical design, and all the way to implementing, testing, production, deployment, and monitoring. This book covers the full set of technologies that you need to know to become a full-stack web developer with Spring Boot for the backend and React for the frontend. This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to build a modern full-stack application in practice. This book will teach you how to build RESTful API endpoints and work with the data access Layer of Spring, using Hibernate as the ORM. As we move ahead, you will be introduced to the other components of Spring, such as Spring Security, which will teach you how to secure the backend. Then, we will move on to the frontend, where you will be introduced to React, a modern JavaScript library for building fast and reliable user interfaces, and its app development environment and components. You will also create a Docker container for your application. Finally, the book will lay out the best practices that underpin professional full-stack web development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. Testing Your Frontend

This chapter explains the basics of testing React apps. We will give an overview of using Jest, which is a JavaScript test library developed by Facebook. We will also cover Enzyme, which is a testing utility for React, developed by Airbnb. We will look at how you can create new test suites and tests. We will also cover how to run the test and discover the results of the test.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

  • The basics of Jest
  • How to create new test suites and tests
  • The basics of the Enzyme test utility
  • How to install Enzyme
  • How to create tests with Enzyme