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Redux Quick Start Guide

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

Redux Quick Start Guide

By: James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya

Overview of this book

Starting with a detailed overview of Redux, we will follow the test-driven development (TDD) approach to develop single-page applications. We will set up JEST for testing and use JEST to test React, Redux, Redux-Sage, Reducers, and other components. We will then add important middleware and set up immutableJS in our application. We will use common data structures such as Map, List, Set, and OrderedList from the immutableJS framework. We will then add user interfaces using ReactJS, Redux-Form, and Ant Design. We will explore the use of react-router-dom and its functions. We will create a list of routes that we will need in order to create our application, and explore routing on the server site and create the required routes for our application. We will then debug our application and integrate Redux Dev tools. We will then set up our API server and create the API required for our application. We will dive into a modern approach to structuring our server site components in terms of Model, Controller, Helper functions, and utilities functions. We will explore the use of NodeJS with Express to build the REST API components. Finally, we will venture into the possibilities of extending the application for further research, including deployment and optimization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Testing ES6 functions


Testing ES6 functions is pretty straightforward. Let's consider a function that calculates the total bill for a person when the hourly rate and the number of hours are provided. Save the snippet in a file called something like calculateBill.js.

Testing a function

Let's consider the following function, calculateBill. It takes totalHours and ratePerHours as the arguments, and returns the total bill:

const calculateBill = (totalHours, ratePerHours) => totalHours * ratePerHours;
module.exports = calculateBill;

To test, it let us create a file and call it calculateBill-test.js:

const calculateBill = require("../calculateBill");
test("calculate bills when the number of hours and the hourly rate is provided.", () => {
 expect(calculateBill(10, 40)).toBe(400);
});

We can run the test by simply executing a yarn test command as:

yarn test
yarn run v1.12.1
$ jest
PASS  app/JS/__tests__/calculateBill-test.js
  calculate bills when the number of hours and hourly rate are provided...