jest-react-example VS jest-dom

We will walk through the process of setting up a basic React App with interactive elements such as a counter with increment/decrement buttons, and a form to post text to the DOM. I will walk through writing the Jest tests and the rest of the code here, but you can view the repo containing all of the code here

Tests structure Queries Roles User events Matchers Jest Matchers testing-library Mock functions

//config/jest/setupTests.ts // jest-dom adds custom jest matchers for asserting on DOM nodes. // allows you to do things like: // expect(element).toHaveTextContent(/react/i) // learn more: https://github.com/testing-library/jest-dom import '@testing-library/jest-dom';

Update: Just got it working. Following the instructions on this github issue and using `shamefully-hoist=true` with pnpm I got it working. The issue I was facing was with pnpm.

React Testing Library uses jest-dom which has a .getByText() matcher.

vitest-dom extends the standard Jest matchers with convenient methods like .toBeDisabled. Now you can write tests that assert on the state of the DOM. The package is a fork of @testing-library/jest-dom.

jest-dom matchers

At the time of writing this article, it still seems to be an open issue. However, a workaround I found is to add "skipLibCheck": true, to your tsconfig.json file.

// jest-dom adds custom jest matchers for asserting on DOM nodes. // allows you to do things like: // expect(element).toHaveTextContent(/react/i) // learn more: https://github.com/testing-library/jest-dom import '@testing-library/jest-dom'; import { server } from './mocks/server'; beforeAll( () => server.listen( { onUnhandledRequest: 'error' } ) ); afterEach( () => server.resetHandlers() ); afterAll( () => server.close() );

Everything you want to do to your test environment such as extends the jest matchers with @testing-library/jest-dom, mock some APIs that’s not implemented in jdom, you can put to config/jest/setupTests.js: