How to Confidently Write Unit Tests using React Testing Library

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    React Testing Library Demo

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  • testing-library-docs

    docs site for @testing-library/*

    The React Testing Library has a set of packages that helps you test UI components in a user-centric way which means just like how the user interacts with the various elements displayed on the page.

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    📋 React Hooks for form state management and validation (Web + React Native)

    Also, instead of managing the state and onChange handler yourself, you can use a very popular react-hook-form library.

  • react-bootstrap

    Bootstrap components built with React

    We will use react-bootstrap to create the UI elements so we don't have to write all CSS from scratch.

  • jest

    Delightful JavaScript Testing.

    We cannot only use the testing library alone, but we also need to install Jest which exposes extensively used global expect function and other things which help to make assertions in our test cases.

  • Enzyme

    JavaScript Testing utilities for React

    So If you have experience with enzyme testing, where you might be checking the value of state once you click any button or you might be checking the prop value If something changes.

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