Building React Apps with Server-Side Rendering: Use React, Redux, and Next to Build Full Server-Side Rendering Applications

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M. ThakkarBuilding React Apps with Server-Side Renderinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5869-9_5

5. Unit Testing Using Jest

Mohit Thakkar¹ 

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Vadodara, Gujarat, India

 

In previous chapters, we learned how to create web applications using libraries such as React and Next.js. We now know how to develop an application using these libraries. What next?

Once an application is developed, it is important for us to know that it works as expected. To do so, we can write automated unit tests to verify that every component of our application is appropriately doing its job. That is exactly what we are going to learn in this chapter. We will use the Jest framework to perform unit testing on our React application.

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As a developer, writing ...