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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Mastering React Test-Driven Development Build rock-solid, well-tested web apps with React, Redux and GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133417
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Irvine Daniel Irvine
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Principles of TDD FREE CHAPTER
2. First Steps with Test-Driven Development 3. Test-driving Data Input with React 4. Exploring Test Doubles 5. Creating a User Interface 6. Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
7. Humanizing Forms 8. Filtering and Searching Data 9. Test-driving React Router 10. Test-driving Redux 11. Test-driving GraphQL 12. Section 3: Interactivity
13. Building a Logo Interpreter 14. Adding Animation 15. Working with WebSockets 16. Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD
17. Writing Your First Acceptance Test 18. Adding Features Guided by Acceptance Tests 19. Understanding TDD in the Wider Testing Landscape 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a Logo Interpreter

Logo is a programming language that was created in the 1960s. It was, for many decades, a popular way to teach children how to code. I have fond memories of writing Logo programs back in high school. What better way to relive my childhood than by building a Logo interpreter with React?

The application we'll build is called Spec Logo. The code for the interpreter and the barebones UI have already been written. In the following three chapters, we'll bolt on additional features to this codebase.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Studying the Spec Logo user interface
  • Undoing and redoing user actions in Redux
  • Saving to LocalStorage via Redux middleware
  • Changing keyboard focus

Of course, we'll be doing all of this with a test-first approach.

This chapter uses a different codebase from the previous chapters. You can find the starting...
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