Writing Tests for React Applications Using Jest and Enzyme

→ Writing Tests for React Applications Using Jest and Enzyme

In this article, you will learn how to write tests for your React application using Jest and Enzyme. This is helpful if you want to write tests to catch edge cases, regressions, and have more confidence in shipping updates to your users.

This article uses yarn instead of npm. Yarn is an alternative package manager. The syntax for Yarn is slightly different compared to npm. You can use either package manager when following along.

Running packages

• Using Yarn:

  yarn create-react-app my-app

• Using npm:

  npm create-react-app my-app

Adding dependencies

• Using Yarn:

  yarn add enzyme enzyme-adapter-react-16 --dev

• Using npm:

  npm install enzyme enzyme-adapter-react-16 --save-dev

Running package.json scripts

• Using Yarn:

  yarn run test

• Using npm:

  npm run test