jest-styled-components

What is jest-styled-components?

jest-styled-components is a Jest utility for testing styled-components. It provides custom matchers to test the styles applied to your components, making it easier to ensure that your styled-components are rendered correctly.

What are jest-styled-components's main functionalities?

toHaveStyleRule

The `toHaveStyleRule` matcher allows you to check if a specific style rule is applied to a component. In this example, it verifies that the `Button` component has a `color` style rule set to `red`.

const styled = require('styled-components').default;
const { toHaveStyleRule } = require('jest-styled-components');
expect.extend({ toHaveStyleRule });

const Button = styled.button`
  color: red;
`;

// Test
it('should have red color', () => {
  const wrapper = mount(<Button />);
  expect(wrapper).toHaveStyleRule('color', 'red');
});

toMatchSnapshot

The `toMatchSnapshot` matcher allows you to take a snapshot of the rendered component and compare it to a previously saved snapshot. This is useful for ensuring that the component's styles have not changed unexpectedly.

const styled = require('styled-components').default;
const { toMatchSnapshot } = require('jest-styled-components');
expect.extend({ toMatchSnapshot });

const Button = styled.button`
  color: red;
`;

// Test
it('should match the snapshot', () => {
  const wrapper = mount(<Button />);
  expect(wrapper).toMatchSnapshot();
});

Other packages similar to jest-styled-components

jest-emotion

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enzyme-to-json

enzyme-to-json is a utility for converting Enzyme wrappers to a format compatible with Jest snapshots. While it does not provide style-specific matchers, it can be used in conjunction with Enzyme to test the rendered output of styled-components.

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README

Jest Styled Components

A set of utilities for testing Styled Components with Jest. This package improves the snapshot testing experience and provides a brand new matcher to make expectations on the style rules.

Quick Start

Installation

yarn add --dev jest-styled-components

Usage

import React from 'react'
import styled from 'styled-components'
import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'
import 'jest-styled-components'

const Button = styled.button`
  color: red;
`

test('it works', () => {
  const tree = renderer.create(<Button />).toJSON()
  expect(tree).toMatchSnapshot()
  expect(tree).toHaveStyleRule('color', 'red')
})

Snapshot Testing

Jest snapshot testing is an excellent way to test React components (or any serializable value) and make sure things don't change unexpectedly. It works with Styled Components but there are a few problems that this package addresses and solves.

For example, suppose we create this styled Button:

import styled from 'styled-components'

const Button = styled.button`
  color: red;
`

Which we cover with the following test:

import React from 'react'
import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'

test('it works', () => {
  const tree = renderer.create(<Button />).toJSON()
  expect(tree).toMatchSnapshot()
})

When we run our test command, Jest generates a snapshot containing a few class names (which we didn't set) and no information about the style rules:

exports[`it works 1`] = `
<button
  className="sc-bdVaJa rOCEJ"
/>
`;

Consequently, changing the color to green:

const Button = styled.button`
  color: green;
`

Results in the following diff, where Jest can only tell us that the class names are changed. Although we can assume that if the class names are changed the style rules are also changed, this is not optimal (and is not always true).

- Snapshot
+ Received

 <button
-  className="sc-bdVaJa rOCEJ"
+  className="sc-bdVaJa hUzqNt"
 />

Here's where Jest Styled Components comes to rescue.

We just import the package into our test file:

import 'jest-styled-components'

When we rerun the test, the output is different: the style rules are included in the snapshot, and the hashed class names are substituted with placeholders that make the diffs less noisy:

- Snapshot
+ Received

+.c0 {
+  color: green;
+}
+
 <button
-  className="sc-bdVaJa rOCEJ"
+  className="c0"
 />

This is the resulting snapshot:

exports[`it works 1`] = `
.c0 {
  color: green;
}

<button
  className="c0"
/>
`;

Now, suppose we change the color again to blue:

const Button = styled.button`
  color: blue;
`

Thanks to Jest Styled Components, Jest is now able to provide the exact information and make our testing experience even more delightful 💖:

- Snapshot
+ Received

 .c0 {
-  color: green;
+  color: blue;
 }

 <button
   className="c0"
 />

Enzyme

enzyme-to-json is necessary to generate snapshots using Enzyme's shallow or full DOM rendering.

yarn add --dev enzyme-to-json

It can be enabled globally in the package.json:

"jest": {
  "snapshotSerializers": [
    "enzyme-to-json/serializer"
  ]
}

Or imported in each test:

import toJson from 'enzyme-to-json'

// ...

expect(toJson(wrapper)).toMatchSnapshot()

Jest Styled Components works with shallow rendering:

import { shallow } from 'enzyme'

test('it works', () => {
  const wrapper = shallow(<Button />)
  expect(wrapper).toMatchSnapshot()
})

And full DOM rendering as well:

import { mount } from 'enzyme'

test('it works', () => {
  const wrapper = mount(<Button />)
  expect(wrapper).toMatchSnapshot()
})

toHaveStyleRule

The toHaveStyleRule matcher is useful to test if a given rule is applied to a component. The first argument is the expected property, the second is the expected value (string or RegExp).

test('it works', () => {
  const tree = renderer.create(<Button />).toJSON()
  expect(tree).toHaveStyleRule('color', 'red')
})

This matcher works with trees serialized with react-test-renderer and shallow renderered or mounted with Enzyme. It checks the style rules applied to the root component it receives, therefore to make assertions on components further in the tree they must be provided separately (Enzyme's find might help).

To use the toHaveStyleRule matcher with React Native, change the import statement to:

import 'jest-styled-components/native'

styled-components < v2

To use this package with styled-components < v2 (e.g. v1.4.6) the following annotation must be added at the top of the test files. Consequently, it won't be possibile to use Enzyme's full DOM rendering.

/**
 * @jest-environment node
 */

Contributing

Please open an issue and discuss with us before submitting a PR.