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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)
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Section 1: First Principles of TDD
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Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
12
Section 3: Interactivity
16
Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD

Paging through a large data set

The Git tag for this section is paging.

Our endpoint, by default, returns at most 10 records. To get more than that, we can page through the result set by using the after parameter, which takes a customer ID. The server will skip through results until it finds that ID and returns the one after it.

Remember that customers are in alphabetical order by first name, so their IDs most likely won't be in order. But we can still use after because searches should be mostly stable between calls.

We'll add Next and Previous buttons that will help us move between search results. Clicking Next will take the ID of the last customer record currently shown on the page, and send it as the after parameter to the next search request.

To support Previous, we'll need to maintain a stack of after IDs that we can pop each time the user clicks Previous.

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