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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the DOM Testing Library and how it is designed to help you write user-focused tests. You now understand how the design of the DOM Testing Library can help you gain confidence that your software works as intended for users. You learned how to install Jest and understand that it is a test runner and the tool we will use to test React code. You learned about jest-dom. You know how it can add better error messages and descriptive DOM matchers for your test assertions. You can now install and use jest-dom in a project that uses Jest. Finally, you have gained an understanding of the disadvantages of implementation detail-focused testing.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to install and start writing tests for React components using React Testing Library.