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React 16 Tooling

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835015
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
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Christopher Pitt Christopher Pitt
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem 2. Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App 3. Development Mode and Mastering Hot Reloading 4. Optimizing Test-Driven React Development 5. Streamlining Development and Refactoring with Type-Safe React Components 6. Enforcing Code Quality to Improve Maintainability 7. Isolating Components with Storybook 8. Debugging Components in the Browser 9. Instrumenting Application State with Redux 10. Building and Deploying Static React Sites with Gatsby 11. Building and Deploying React Applications with Docker Containers 1. Another Book You May Enjoy Index

Running tests


The Jest command-line tools are all you need to run your unit tests. There are a number of ways that the tool can be used. First, you'll learn how to invoke the test runner from a create-react-app environment and how to use the interactive watch mode options. Then, you'll learn how to run Jest in a standalone environment without the help of create-react-app.

Running tests using react-scripts

When you create your React application using create-react-app, you're ready to run tests right away. In fact, as part of the boilerplate code that's created for you, a unit test for the App component is created. This test is added so that Jest will find a test that it can run. It doesn't actually test anything meaningful in your application, so you'll probably delete it once more tests are added.

Additionally, create-react-app adds the appropriate script to your package.json file to run your tests. You can just run the following command in your Terminal:

npm test

This will actually invoke the...

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