Setting up unit testing in a React app involves several steps. Here’s a general guide to help you get started:

Step 1: Install the necessary dependencies

You’ll need to install the testing libraries and tools required for unit testing in React. The most common ones are Jest and React Testing Library.

npm install --save-dev jest @testing-library/react

Step 2: Create the test files

Create a folder called __tests__ in your source code directory (usually the same level as the src folder).…

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React Testing Library makes functional testing of React components easier. It provides a virtual DOM where we can render components, provides methods to query the DOM for various elements, interact with those elements and make assertions on them. The objective of this post is to serve as a one-stop reference material for the most commonly used code patterns related to React testing library.…

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Let’s say we have an idea for a cool component. We want to build it and share it with the community by publishing it to NPM registry. The code to implement the component functionality appears intuitive. But the boilerplate we have to put together for the open-source project is convoluted. In this tutorial, we will put together a boilerplate project for publishing components.…

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