Declarative and Scalable Testing With React Testing Library

By Medium - 2020-12-31

Description

“All code is guilty, until proven innocent.” — Anonymous

Summary

Let’s be honest, writing tests for your React components is probably not your favorite thing to do.
Another big reason I prefer using React Testing Library is because of the libraries philosophy which essentially states that your tests should resemble the way your users will interact with your app.
When one of your users is using your app they are not aware of the fact that they are interacting with state and props.
So, rather than testing whether or not the correct props or state were changed in your component, React Testing Library is designed in such a way that you have to test what your users are seeing and doing.

Topics

UX (0.4)
Frontend (0.24)
Management (0.13)

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