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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Mastering React Test-Driven Development Build simple and maintainable web apps with React, Redux, and GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247120
Length 564 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Exploring the TDD Workflow
2. Chapter 1: First Steps with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Rendering Lists and Detail Views 4. Chapter 3: Refactoring the Test Suite 5. Chapter 4: Test-Driving Data Input 6. Chapter 5: Adding Complex Form Interactions 7. Chapter 6: Exploring Test Doubles 8. Chapter 7: Testing useEffect and Mocking Components 9. Chapter 8: Building an Application Component 10. Part 2 – Building Application Features
11. Chapter 9: Form Validation 12. Chapter 10: Filtering and Searching Data 13. Chapter 11: Test-Driving React Router 14. Chapter 12: Test-Driving Redux 15. Chapter 13: Test-Driving GraphQL 16. Part 3 – Interactivity
17. Chapter 14: Building a Logo Interpreter 18. Chapter 15: Adding Animation 19. Chapter 16: Working with WebSockets 20. Part 4 – Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber
21. Chapter 17: Writing Your First Cucumber Test 22. Chapter 18: Adding Features Guided by Cucumber Tests 23. Chapter 19: Understanding TDD in the Wider Testing Landscape 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Test-driving a reducer

In this section, we’ll test-drive a new reducer function, and then pull out some repeated code.

A reducer is a simple function that takes an action and the current store state as input and returns a new state object as output. Let’s build that now, as follows:

  1. Create a new file (in a new directory) named test/reducers/customer.test.js. Add the following first test, which checks that if the reducer is invoked with an unknown action, our reducer should return a default state for our object. This is standard behavior for Redux reducers, so you should always start with a test like this:
    import { reducer } from "../../src/reducers/customer";
    describe("customer reducer", () => {
      it("returns a default state for an undefined existing state", () => {
        expect(reducer(undefined, {})).toEqual({
          customer: {},
          ...
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