Practical TDD for React is a workshop focused on teaching a practical approach to TDD. I really want to emphasize the practical aspect of it. We won't be doing what most people would consider a purist/conventional approach to TDD. Instead, we're going to spend a lot of time looking at workflows, tools, techniques, and tradeoffs that I believe will make TDD much more approachable for you to start practicing in your day-to-day coding and consequently, make your time more productive and enjoyable. 🤓 If you already use TDD or automated testing when writing code, then I believe this workshop will offer some new perspective for you on how to make your TDD workflow more productive. 🚀
Please complete the items on the list below before the workshop. This will allow us to spend as much time as possible on the good stuff. 🍕 Also, I highly recommend working through the Resources in this README prior to the workshop. The workshop will be more productive for you if you have at least a base level familiarity with the tools that we're using. Please reach out to me at don@testwrangler.io or open an issue on this repo if you run into any problems or have any feedback. I look forward to seeing you at the workshop! 🎆
- Install all of the Dependencies
- Fork the repo.
- Clone the repo locally.
- Complete the Getting Started section.
- (Optional, but recommended) Sign up for an account on CircleCI.
- (Optional, but recommended) Setup your forked repo on CircleCI.
Please make sure you have the following installed before beginning:
- Node 10.16.x / npm 6.9.x. I highly recommend using nvm to manager your Node versions.
- yarn 1.17.x
- git: 2.22.x (a different version of git should work fine, but try installing this version if you run into issues).
- Clone the repo.
- Install the dependencies:
yarn. - Run the React component tests:
yarn test. - Run the app:
yarn start. - With the app still running from the previous step, run the Cypress tests:
yarn cypress run.
Cypress is an awesome tool for writing flexible E2E and integration tests. If you don't know what E2E and integration tests are, don't worry - we'll go over them in the workshop. Getting familiar with Cypress would still be very beneficial for you. You can check out the docs here. Egghead.io also has a great course that walks you through Cypress in more depth.
React Testing Library is a library developed by Kent Dodds. It's focus is on providing tools to make your React component tests act more like a user. General intro here and React Testing Library intro here. Egghead.io again has a great course for this as well.
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. Please see the docs for info on anything related to create-react-app.