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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

By : Scottie Crump
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Simplify Testing with React Testing Library

By: Scottie Crump

Overview of this book

React Testing Library (RTL) is a lightweight and easy-to-use tool for testing the document object model (DOM) output of components. This book will show you how to use this modern, user-friendly tool to test React components, reducing the risk that your application will not work as expected in production. The book demonstrates code snippets that will allow you to implement RTL easily, helping you to understand the guiding principles of the DOM Testing Library to write tests from the perspective of the user. You'll explore the advantages of testing components from the perspective of individuals who will actually use your components, and use test-driven development (TDD) to drive the process of writing tests. As you advance, you'll discover how to add RTL to React projects, test components using the Context API, and also learn how to write user interface (UI) end-to-end tests using the popular Cypress library. Throughout this book, you’ll work with practical examples and useful explanations to be able to confidently create tests that don't break when changes are made. By the end of this React book, you will have learned all you need to be able to test React components confidently.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Chapter 3: Testing Complex Components with React Testing Library

In Chapter 2, Working with React Testing Library, we learned how to test presentational components. However, most features are designed to allow user actions that result in changes to the state and resulting output. Testing as many user action scenarios as possible is essential for reducing risk before sending code to production for end users. By the end of this chapter, you will learn how to simulate user actions with the fireEvent and user-event modules. You will learn how to test components that interact with web service APIs. Finally, you will learn how to use test-driven development as a workflow for building your features.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • Performing actions on components with the fireEvent module
  • Simulating Document Object Model (DOM) events with the user-event module
  • Testing components that interact with APIs
  • Implementing test-driven development...