Testing React with Jest and React Testing Library

React Testing Library has become an extremely popular option for testing React, and with good reason! This detailed, comprehensive course provides a solid foundation for React app tests.

What I learned

• Testing simple and complex React applications with React Testing Library
• Making the most of Jest watch mode, including running only one file or test at a time
• React Testing best Practices: how to test behavior instead of implementation
• Common errors returned by Testing Library and how to correct them

Built with

• React JS 18
• Vite
• Semantic UI
• Jest
• React Testing Library
• Eslint & Prettier

Installation

This React project has been created using Vite.

Step 1:

You need to install yarn. Yarn is a package and library manager.

Step 2:

git clone https://github.com/bryanAguilar001/react-jest-testing-library-app.git
cd testing-react-app

Step 3:

Run this command to install libs

yarn

Step 4:

Download and run the server in this repo

Step 5:

Run the app

yarn start

Step 6:

Run tests (It is not necessary to run the server for testing)

yarn test

Author

• Website - www.bryan-aguilar.com
• Medium - baguilar6174
• LinkeIn - baguilar6174

Application