Summary

This chapter has shown you how TDD can be applied beyond just toy examples. Although you may not ever want to implement form validation yourself, you can see how complex code can be test-driven using the same methods that you learned in the first part of this book.

First, you learned how to validate field values at an appropriate moment: when fields lose focus and when forms are submitted. You also saw how server-side errors can be integrated into that, and how to display an indicator to show the user that data is in the process of being saved.

This chapter also covered how to move logic from your React components into their own modules.

In the next chapter, we’ll add a new feature to our system: a snazzy search interface.