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Mastering React Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By : Daniel Irvine
Book Image

Mastering React Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By: Daniel Irvine

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a programming workflow that helps you build your apps by specifying behavior as automated tests. The TDD workflow future-proofs apps so that they can be modified without fear of breaking existing functionality. Another benefit of TDD is that it helps software development teams communicate their intentions more clearly, by way of test specifications. This book teaches you how to apply TDD when building React apps. You’ll create a sample app using the same React libraries and tools that professional React developers use, such as Jest, React Router, Redux, Relay (GraphQL), Cucumber, and Puppeteer. The TDD workflow is supported by various testing techniques and patterns, which are useful even if you’re not following the TDD process. This book covers these techniques by walking you through the creation of a component test framework. You’ll learn automated testing theory which will help you work with any of the test libraries that are in standard usage today, such as React Testing Library. This second edition has been revised with a stronger focus on concise code examples and has been fully updated for React 18. By the end of this TDD book, you’ll be able to use React, Redux, and GraphQL to develop robust web apps.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Exploring the TDD Workflow
10
Part 2 – Building Application Features
16
Part 3 – Interactivity
20
Part 4 – Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

acceptance tests 519

accessibility

alert role 174, 249

element description 249

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)

about 109, 174

aria-describedby 234, 243

act function

about 61, 255, 460

reference link 19

using 18-20

Act phase 148, 150

addAppointment 212

after parameter 268

alert role

about 174, 249

using, on multiple elements 249

AnimatedLine component

building 414-417

animation

behavior, varying 431-437

canceling, with cancelAnimationFrame 429-431

class 506-508

designing 412, 413

turtle position, using for 422

animation status

anonymous functions 472

App component

about 209

plan, formulating 210, 211

state, using to control active view 211-219

updating 460-463

appointments

data structure...