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Test-Driven React
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Test-Driven React

by Trevor Burnham
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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So far, we’ve used React to encapsulate the functionality of a single DOM element (<button>) in a component (CarouselButton). But React components are capable of doing more than that. Next, we’ll build the CarouselSlide component, which will be responsible for rendering several distinct DOM elements:

  • An <img> to display the actual image
  • A <figcaption> to associate caption text with the image
  • Text, some of which will be wrapped in <strong> for emphasis
  • A <figure> to wrap it all up

We’ll take a TDD approach to building this tree while ensuring that the props we provide to CarouselSlide are routed correctly. Start by creating a “stub” of the component, a minimal implementation you can add functionality to later:

 // src/CarouselSlide.js ...
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