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@testing-library/react-hooks
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@testing-library/react-hooks
Simple and complete React hooks testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
react-hooks-testing-library
Simple and complete React hooks testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
Read The Docs
A Note about React 18 Support
As part of the changes for React 18, it has been decided that the renderHook API provided by this
library will instead be included as official additions to both react-testing-library
(PR) and
react-native-testing-library
(PR) with the intention being
to provide a more cohesive and consistent implementation for our users.
Please be patient as we finalise these changes in the respective testing libraries.
In the mean time you can install @testing-library/react@^13.1
Table of Contents
- The problem
- The solution
- When to use this library
- When not to use this library
- Example
- Installation
- API
- Contributors
- Issues
- LICENSE
The problem
You're writing an awesome custom hook and you want to test it, but as soon as you call it you see the following error:
Invariant Violation: Hooks can only be called inside the body of a function component.
You don't really want to write a component solely for testing this hook and have to work out how you were going to trigger all the various ways the hook can be updated, especially given the complexities of how you've wired the whole thing together.
The solution
The react-hooks-testing-library allows you to create a simple test harness for React hooks that
handles running them within the body of a function component, as well as providing various useful
utility functions for updating the inputs and retrieving the outputs of your amazing custom hook.
This library aims to provide a testing experience as close as possible to natively using your hook
from within a real component.
Using this library, you do not have to concern yourself with how to construct, render or interact with the react component in order to test your hook. You can just use the hook directly and assert the results.
When to use this library
- You're writing a library with one or more custom hooks that are not directly tied to a component
- You have a complex hook that is difficult to test through component interactions
When not to use this library
- Your hook is defined alongside a component and is only used there
- Your hook is easy to test by just testing the components using it
Example
useCounter.js
import { useState, useCallback } from 'react'
function useCounter() {
const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
const increment = useCallback(() => setCount((x) => x + 1), [])
return { count, increment }
}
export default useCounter
useCounter.test.js
import { renderHook, act } from '@testing-library/react-hooks'
import useCounter from './useCounter'
test('should increment counter', () => {
const { result } = renderHook(() => useCounter())
act(() => {
result.current.increment()
})
expect(result.current.count).toBe(1)
})
More advanced usage can be found in the documentation.
Installation
npm install --save-dev @testing-library/react-hooks
Peer Dependencies
react-hooks-testing-library does not come bundled with a version of
react to allow you to install the specific version you want
to test against. It also does not come installed with a specific renderer, we currently support
react-test-renderer and
react-dom. You only need to install one of them,
however, if you do have both installed, we will use react-test-renderer as the default. For more
information see the
installation docs. Generally, the
installed versions for react and the selected renderer should have matching versions:
npm install react@^16.9.0
npm install --save-dev react-test-renderer@^16.9.0
NOTE: The minimum supported version of
react,react-test-rendererandreact-domis^16.9.0.
API
See the API reference.
Contributors
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
Issues
Looking to contribute? Look for the Good First Issue label.
🐛 Bugs
Please file an issue for bugs, missing documentation, or unexpected behavior.
💡 Feature Requests
Please file an issue to suggest new features. Vote on feature requests by adding a 👍. This helps maintainers prioritize what to work on.
❓ Questions
For questions related to using the library, you can raise issue here, or visit a support community:
LICENSE
MIT
Other packages similar to @testing-library/react-hooks
enzyme
Enzyme is a JavaScript testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output. It does not provide a dedicated API for testing hooks in isolation, which is a key difference from @testing-library/react-hooks.
react-test-renderer
React Test Renderer is an official React package that provides a renderer that can be used to render React components to pure JavaScript objects, without depending on the DOM or a native mobile environment. It is more general-purpose compared to @testing-library/react-hooks, which is specifically tailored for testing React hooks.
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Simple and complete React hooks testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
The npm package @testing-library/react-hooks receives a total of 2,472,740 weekly downloads. As such, @testing-library/react-hooks popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @testing-library/react-hooks demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 13 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 18 Jun 2022
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