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Mastering React Test-Driven Development

You're reading from   Mastering React Test-Driven Development Build rock-solid, well-tested web apps with React, Redux and GraphQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133417
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Irvine Daniel Irvine
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: First Principles of TDD FREE CHAPTER
2. First Steps with Test-Driven Development 3. Test-driving Data Input with React 4. Exploring Test Doubles 5. Creating a User Interface 6. Section 2: Building a Single-Page Application
7. Humanizing Forms 8. Filtering and Searching Data 9. Test-driving React Router 10. Test-driving Redux 11. Test-driving GraphQL 12. Section 3: Interactivity
13. Building a Logo Interpreter 14. Adding Animation 15. Working with WebSockets 16. Section 4: Acceptance Testing with BDD
17. Writing Your First Acceptance Test 18. Adding Features Guided by Acceptance Tests 19. Understanding TDD in the Wider Testing Landscape 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Test-driving Redux

Redux is a predictable state container. To the uninitiated, these words mean very little. But Redux doesn't have to be scary. In fact, TDD can help us understand how to implement and reason about our Redux application architecture.

Refactoring to Redux is a common operation. Many React projects will begin without Redux in place but then grow to need it. Teams will adopt Redux when they start to feel the pain of managing an application state across multiple components. TDD can help us refactor in a safe way.

Designing a Redux system is not straightforward. Although Redux is simple at its core, that simplicity leaves the integrator with many decisions to make. Redux isn't very opinionated about how it should be used. That being said, my focus in this chapter is on teaching you how to test-drive Redux, not how to model state in Redux. "Eloquent...

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