An Introduction to the React Testing Library
Instructor
Daniel Afonso
In 2018, Kent C. Dodds wrote: "The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you." This phrase became the guiding principle for the entire Testing Library ecosystem.
A few years later, the React Testing Library became the de facto library for writing unit and integration tests in the React ecosystem.
Thanks to its user-centric perspective, our tests are closer to our user experience and far away from implementation details.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- render your components
- properly query your UI for elements while keeping accessibility and your users' experience in mind
- improve your testing experience with the usage of some utilities
- interact with your components to fire events
- leverage asynchronous utilities to customize your testing flow
- get rid of the annoying "not wrapped in act" warning
After this course, you should be able to write and debug any test using the React Testing Library!
Learner Reviews
- Learner2 weeks agoWhat did you like about this course?
Interesting course and easy to understand
- lvanngo4 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
Verry succinct and to the point.
- Rafael Pereira4 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
It's good but it could be more complex including examples for mock endpoints call or even showing more error cases.
- Jose6 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
I learned RTL by osmosis in an existing codebase. This course helped cement the concepts and add a few pointers for writing test code quicker next time. There were a few things I had not seen before. The last video on the use of act is perhaps the most challenging one to wrap my head around.
- Jeirsen8 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
Basic but straight to the point, I think Daniel explain very well all these basic concepts. Looking forward for a more advanced course
- Federico Hernández10 months agoWhat did you like about this course?
Clear and concise valuable info. Great explanation of each of the methods and how to use the testing library.
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