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React Projects - Second Edition

By : Roy Derks
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React Projects - Second Edition

By: Roy Derks

Overview of this book

Developed by Facebook, React is a popular library for building impressive user interfaces. React extends its capabilities to mobile platforms using the React Native framework and integrates with popular web and mobile tools to build scalable applications. React Projects is your guide to learning React development by using modern development patterns and integrating React with powerful web tools, such as GraphQL, Expo, and React 360. You'll start building a real-world project right from the first chapter and get hands-on with developing scalable applications as you advance to building more complex projects. Throughout the book, you'll use the latest versions of React and React Native to explore features such as routing, Context, and Hooks on multiple platforms, which will help you build full-stack web and mobile applications efficiently. Finally, you'll get to grips with unit testing with Jest and end-to-end testing with Cypress to build test-driven apps. By the end of this React book, you'll have developed the skills necessary to start building scalable React apps across web and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered testing for React applications using the React Testing Library in combination with Jest. Both packages are a great resource for any developer that wants to add test scripts to their application, and they work very well with React. The advantages of having tests for your application were discussed in this chapter, and hopefully, you now know how to add test scripts to any project. The differences between unit tests and integration tests were shown, and you've also learned how to write end-to-end tests with Cypress.

Since the application that was tested in this chapter has the same structure as the applications from previous chapters, the same testing principles can be applied to any of the applications we've built in this book.

The next chapter will combine a lot of the patterns and libraries we've already used in this book, as we'll be creating a full-stack e-commerce store with React, GraphQL, and Apollo.