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Mastering React Test-Driven Development - Second Edition

By : Daniel Irvine
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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

Filtering and Searching Data

In this chapter, we’ll continue applying the techniques we’ve already learned to another, more complex use case.

As we work through the chapter, we’ll learn how to adjust a component’s design using tests to show us where the design is lacking. Test-driven development really helps highlight design issues when the tests get knarly. Luckily, the tests we’ve already written give us the confidence to change course and completely reinvent our design. With each change, we simply run npm test and have our new implementation verified in a matter of seconds.

In the current workflow, users start by adding a new customer and then immediately book an appointment for that customer. Now, we’ll expand on that by allowing them to choose an existing customer before adding an appointment.

We want users to be able to quickly search through customers. There could be hundreds, maybe thousands, of customers registered with this...