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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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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Principles of TDD
2. First Steps with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER 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

Saving to LocalStorage via Redux middleware

The Git tag for this section is local-storage.

Let's update our app to save the current state to local storage, which is a persistent data store managed by the user's web browser. Each executed statement will cause the entire set of parsed tokens to be saved. When the user opens the app, the tokens will be read and replayed through the parser.

As a reminder, the parser (in src/parser.js) has a function parseTokens. This is the function we'll call from within our middleware, and in this section, we'll build tests to assert that we've called this function.

We'll write a new piece of Redux middleware for the task. The middleware will pull out only two pieces of the script state: the name and the parsedTokens.

The local storage API is fairly straightforward:

  • window.localStorage.getItem(key) returns the value...
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