react-testing-library VS jsdom

React Testing Library

After searching for a workaround, I found this issue thread on the React-testing-library Github page, which gave me a clear solution.

yeeeesss and as an advice use testID in most of matcher cases. also do not rely only on detox matcher try https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library

React Testing Library: This library provides simple and complete React DOM testing utilities that encourage good testing practices. It helps you write tests that are more focused on the behavior of your components rather than the implementation details. https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library

I've had a number of issues since the upgrate to React 18, notably this one.

For more information see: - The PR implementing 'renderHook' in React Testing Library

Really? It seems like it's already been replaced. Can you link to where it's not quite deprecated yet? https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library/releases/tag/v13.1.0

expect(wrapper.find('FetchNextPageButton').props()).toMatchObject({ query: NEWS\_QUERY, path: "viewer.news"}) So I'm wondering what's the best approach to test it by using React testing library instead.

^ jest for running the tests & @types/jest to help with IDE auto-complete when writing tests. @testing-library/react to render components in the testing environment & test them in a way that tries to mimic how users interact with them. @testing-library/jest-dom for additional DOM-related assertions.

There are many ways to test component UIs and some testing frameworks help us achieve that, to mention but a few react-testing-library, where we write tests to check what a component has, for example, if we are testing a form component, we will write tests to check it a button is rendered, if there are input and/or select tags, etc and we usually see the results in our terminals but with React cosmos, we have a visual way to test our components (Visual TDD) which makes testing easier.

If you happen to be using React Testing Library in your project, you'll need to keep the jsdom dev dependency installed.

Readability.js requires a DOM object to parse the readable content from a website. That's why we create a DOM object with JSDOM and provide the HTML from the page and its current URL. By the way, the browser may have had to follow HTTP redirects, so the current URL doesn't necessarily have to be the one we provided initially. The parse function of the library returns the following result:

This was the basic usage of JSDOM. If you want to learn more, please check out this documentation.

Web scraping, while immensely useful, often requires developers to navigate a sea of tools and libraries, each with its own quirks and intricacies. Whether it's JSDOM, Cheerio, Playwright, or even just plain old vanilla JS in the DevTools console, moving between these platforms can be a challenge.

React testing library uses jsdom (or others like happy-dom) under the hood to emulate the browser environment and enable testing of different properties. but it doesn't render the component in an actual browser meaning the styles can't be computed and the returned computed style is just an object with the correct keys but empty strings as values.

Note: In order to use the library jsdom to scrape the HTML response we need to avoid the @import statements in the CSS.

The code uses jSDom to render the app but I was wondering if it's possible to run the app without the UI to be able to use a library like that to generate the string from react element.

JSDOM as the DOM environment for running our tests