README.md

flux-jest-container

Testing the container logic that connects stores to views can be tricky. This example shows you how to create some utilities to help mock out store data in order to write these kinds of tests effectively.

Usage

cd path/to/flux-jest
npm install
npm run test

Differences from flux-shell

The primary differences from the flux-shell project that are necessary to use Jest are:

1. Run npm install --save-dev jest babel-jest react-test-renderer
2. Add "jest" property to package.json
3. Update "test" key in the "scripts" section of package.json

Setting it up this way will reuse the .babelrc file we already have set up so we can keep using the same syntax in our test files!

Check out the tests

Check out the test file and make sure to read through the comments in beforeEach() to get a sense of how and why we set up the test file the way we did.

In this test we make use of toMatchSnapshot() which will serialize the state of a react component to a snapshot file. Then if any changes are made that cause the snapshot to change the test will fail unless we explicitly decide to update the snapshot. This helps prevent any unexpected UI regressions. Read more about snapshot testing in the blog post here: React Tree Snapshot Testing.

Important files for this example:

• AppContainer-test.js
• AppContainer-test.js.snap
• AppContainer.js