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Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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Updating the app

We’ve completed the work on building the sagas, but we have just a couple of adjustments to make in the rest of the app.

The MenuButtons component is already functionally complete, but we need to update the tests to properly exercise the middleware, in two ways: first, we must stub out the WebSocket constructor, and second, we need to fire off a TRY_START_WATCHING action as soon as the app starts:

  1. Open test/MenuButtons.test.js and start by importing the act function. We’ll need this to await our socket saga actions:
    import { act } from "react-dom/test-utils";
  2. Next, find the describe block named sharing button and insert the following beforeEach block, which is similar to the same stubbed constructor you used in the saga tests:
    describe("sharing button", () => {
      let socketSpyFactory;
      let socketSpy;
      beforeEach(() => {
        socketSpyFactory = jest.spyOn(
     ...
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Daniel Irvine

Daniel Irvine is a UK-based software consultant. He helps businesses simplify their existing codebases and assists dev teams in improving the quality of their software using eXtreme programming (XP) practices. He has been coaching developers for many years and co-founded the Queer Code London meetup.
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