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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 WebSocket connection

We start by filling out that first function, startSharing. This function is invoked when the START_SHARING action is received. That action is triggered when the user clicks the Start sharing button:

  1. Open test/middleware/sharingSagas.test.js and add the following imports at the top:
    import { storeSpy, expectRedux } from "expect-redux";
    import { act } from "react-dom/test-utils";
    import { configureStore } from "../../src/store";
  2. At the bottom of the file, add a new describe block and its setup. We’ll break this into a couple of steps: first, set up the Redux store and the WebSocket spy. Because window.WebSocket is a constructor function, we use mockImplementation to stub it out:
    describe("sharingSaga", () => {
      let store;
      let socketSpyFactory;
      beforeEach(() => {
        store = configureStore([storeSpy]);
        socketSpyFactory...
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