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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

Selecting data to view

Let’s add in some dynamic behavior to our page. We’ll make each of the list items a link that the user can click on to view that appointment.

Thinking through our design a little, there are a few pieces we’ll need:

  • A button element within our li
  • An onClick handler that is attached to that button element
  • Component state to record which appointment is currently being viewed

When we test React actions, we do it by observing the consequences of those actions. In this case, we can click on a button and then check that its corresponding appointment is now rendered on the screen.

We’ll break this section into two parts: first, we’ll specify how the component should initially appear, and second, we’ll handle a click event for changing the content.

Initial selection of data

Let’s start by asserting that each li element has a button element:

  1. We want to display a message to the user...
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