Chapter 6: Building an Application Exploring TDD Using the React Testing Library and Cypress
To keep your application maintainable, it is good practice to have testing set up for your project. Whereas some developers hate writing tests and therefore try to avoid writing them, other developers like to make testing the core of their development process by implementing a Test-Driven Development (TDD) strategy. There are many opinions about testing your applications and how to do this. Luckily, when building an application with React, many great libraries can help you with testing.
In this chapter, you'll use the React Testing Library tool to unit-test React applications. This library is maintained by the React community itself and ships with Create React App. It has lots of functionalities tailored to testing entire life cycles within your components and other React features. Therefore, the React Testing Library is a great fit for testing most React applications if you want to...
