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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)

Enhancing Cypress commands with the Cypress Testing Library

In the previous section, we learned how to install and write a user flow test using Cypress. In this section, we will learn how to install and configure the Cypress Testing Library to add enhanced query selectors. The Cypress Testing Library will allow us to use DOM Testing Library query methods in Cypress. Install the library using the following command:

npm install --save-dev @testing-library/cypress

The preceding code installs @testing-library/cypress as a development dependency in your project. After the library is installed, we can add it to the Cypress commands file:

import '@testing-library/cypress/add-commands'

In the preceding code, we extended the Cypress commands with those from the Cypress Testing Library. Now that we have the Cypress Testing Library installed, we can use it in our tests. It should be noted that only findBy* methods from the DOM Testing Library are included to support the...