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React in Action
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React in Action

by Mark Thomas
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
12h 19m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 9. Testing React components

This chapter covers

  • Testing front-end applications
  • Setting up testing for React
  • Testing React components
  • Setting up test coverage

In the last chapter, you added some significant functionality to your application. It now has routing and user state, and you’ve broken it up into smaller pieces. You even added some basic authentication so users could log in using their GitHub profile. Your application is starting to look more robust, even if it’s probably not going to worry anyone at Facebook or Twitter. You can do lots more with React than you could when we first started. But as we’ve focused on learning the basics, we’ve omitted an important part of the development process: testing.

I didn’t cover testing ...

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