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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Build easy to scale modular applications using the most powerful components and design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464538
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Bertoli Michele Bertoli
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Everything You Should Know About React FREE CHAPTER 2. Clean Up Your Code 3. Create Truly Reusable Components 4. Compose All the Things 5. Proper Data Fetching 6. Write Code for the Browser 7. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 8. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 9. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 10. About Testing and Debugging 11. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 12. Next Steps

A real-world testing example


We have a working test set up and a clear understanding of what the different tools and libraries can do for us. The next thing to do is to test a real-world component.

The Button we used in the previous example was great and we should always try to make our components as simple as possible; but sometimes we need to implement different kinds of logic and state, which makes the tests more challenging.

The component we are going to test is TodoTextInput from the Redux TodoMVC example:

https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/examples/todomvc/src/components/TodoTextInput.js

You can easily copy it into your Jest project folder.

It represents a nice example because it has various props, its class names change according to the props it receives, and it has three event handlers that implement a bit of logic that we can test.

The TodoMVC example is a standard way of creating a real-world application with the different frameworks in order to compare their features and...

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