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Learn React Hooks

You're reading from   Learn React Hooks Build and refactor modern React.js applications using Hooks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641443
Length 426 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Bugl Daniel Bugl
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Hooks
2. Introducing React and React Hooks FREE CHAPTER 3. Using the State Hook 4. Writing Your First Application with React Hooks 5. Section 2: Understanding Hooks in Depth
6. Using the Reducer and Effect Hooks 7. Implementing React Context 8. Implementing Requests and React Suspense 9. Using Hooks for Routing 10. Using Community Hooks 11. Rules of Hooks 12. Building Your Own Hooks 13. Section 3: Integration and Migration
14. Migrating from React Class Components 15. Redux and Hooks 16. MobX and Hooks 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing Hooks

Now our blog application makes full use of Hooks! We even defined custom Hooks for various functions to make our code more reusable, concise, and easy to read.

When defining custom Hooks, it makes sense to write tests for them to ensure they work properly, even when we change them later on or add more options.

To test our Hooks, we are going to use the Jest test runner, which is included in our create-react-app project. However, as a result of the rules of Hooks, we cannot call Hooks from the test functions because they can only be called inside the body of a function component.

Because we do not want to create a component specifically for each test, we are going to use the React Hooks Testing Library to test Hooks directly. This library actually creates a test component and provides various utility functions to interact with the Hook.

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