unexpected-react

Plugin for unexpected to allow for testing the full virtual DOM, and against the shallow renderer (replaces unexpected-react-shallow)

See the blog post for an introduction: https://medium.com/@bruderstein/the-missing-piece-to-the-react-testing-puzzle-c51cd30df7a0

Documentation

The full documentation with all the assertions: http://bruderstein.github.io/unexpected-react

Important note about React v16 support

Note that in a mocha jsdom environment you also need a polyfill for requestAnimationFrame

Features

Assert React component's output using the shallow renderer
Assert React component's output using the full renderer and JSX "expected" values (e.g. TestUtils.renderIntoDocument())
Assert React component's output using the test renderer (react-test-renderer (require unexpected-react/test-renderer)
Trigger events on components in shallow, full and test renderers
Locate components using JSX queries in shallow, full and test renderers
All assertions work identically with the shallow, full and test renderers, allowing you to mix and match in your tests, based on what you need.

Examples

Checking a simple render

var todoList = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
);

expect(
  todoList,
  'to have rendered', 
  <div className='items'>
    <TodoItem id={1}>
      <span className="label">Buy flowers</span>
    </TodoItem>
    <TodoItem id={2}>
      <span className="label">Mow the lawn</span>
    </TodoItem>
    <TodoItem id={3}>
      <span className="label">Buy groceries</span>
    </TodoItem>
  </div>
);

Direct rendering for shallow and deep rendering:

expect(
  <TodoList items={todoItems} />,
  'when rendered',
  'to have rendered', 
  <div className='items'>
    <TodoItem id={1} label="Buy flowers" />
    <TodoItem id={2} label="Mow the lawn" />
    <TodoItem id={3} label="Buy groceries" />
  </div>
);

Triggering an event on a button inside a subcomponent (using the eventTarget prop to identify where the event should be triggered)

expect(
  todoList,
  'with event click',
  'on', <TodoItem id={2}><span className="label" eventTarget /></TodoItem>,
  'to contain',
  <TodoItem id={2}>
    <div className='completed'>
      <span>Completed!</span>
    </div>
  </TodoItem>
);

Locating a component with queried for then validating the render

expect(
  todoList,
  'queried for', <TodoItem id={2} />,
  'to have rendered',
  <TodoItem id={2}>
    <div className='completed'/>
  </TodoItem>
);

Locating a component and then checking the state of the component with the full renderer

expect(todoList,
  'with event click',
  'on', <TodoItem id={1}><span className="label" eventTarget /></TodoItem>,
  'queried for', <TodoItem id={1} />
).then(todoItem => {
  // Here we're checking the state, but we could perform
  // any operation on the instance of the component.
  expect(todoItem.state, 'to satisfy', { completed: true });
});

Calling an event and validating the output using the test renderer

const unexpected = require('unexpected');
const React = require('react');
const TestRenderer = require('react-test-renderer');
const expect = unexpected.clone().use(require('unexpected-react/test-renderer'));

describe('ClickCounterButton', function () {
  
  it('shows the increased click count after a click event', function () {
    const renderer = TestRenderer.create(<ClickCounterButton />);
    expect(renderer, 
        'with event', 'click',
        'to have rendered',
        <button>Clicked {1} time</button>
    );
  });
});

Usage

npm install --save-dev unexpected unexpected-react

Initialising

With the shallow renderer


var unexpected = require('unexpected');
var unexpectedReact = require('unexpected-react');

var React = require('react');
var ReactTestUtils = require('react-dom/test-utils');

// Require the component we want to test
var MyComponent = require('../MyComponent');

// Declare our `expect` instance to use unexpected-react
var expect = unexpected.clone()
    .use(unexpectedReact);
    
describe('MyComponent', function () {
    it('renders a button', function () {
        var renderer = ReactTestUtils.createRenderer();
        renderer.render(<MyComponent />);
        expect(renderer, 'to have rendered', <button>Click me</button>);
    });
});

With the test renderer

If you want to use the react-test-renderer, then require('unexpected-react/test-renderer')


var unexpected = require('unexpected');

// Note that for the test-renderer, we need a different `require`
var unexpectedReact = require('unexpected-react/test-renderer');

var React = require('react');
var TestRenderer = require('react-test-renderer');

var MyComponent = require('../MyComponent');

// define our instance of the `expect` function to use unexpected-react
const expect = unexpected.clone()
    .use(unexpectedReact);
    

describe('MyComponent', function () {
    it('renders a button', function () {
        var renderer = TestRenderer.create(<MyComponent />);
        expect(renderer, 'to have rendered', <button>Click me</button>);
    });
});

With the full virtual DOM (all custom components AND the DOM elements)

If you want to assert over the whole virtual DOM, then you need to emulate the DOM (note this library is not designed for use in the browser - it may be possible, but at the very least, you'll need to disable the react-devtools)

If you don't need the virtual DOM, and you're just using the shallow renderer, then the order of the requires is not important, and you obviously don't need the emulateDom.js require.

The order of require's is important. unexpected-react must be required before react is required. That means unexpected-react must be required before any other file is required that requires React (e.g. your components!)

(You can also use the shallow renderer interchangeably with this setup)

// First require your DOM emulation file (see below)
require( '../testHelpers/emulateDom');

var unexpected = require('unexpected');

// then require unexpected-react
var unexpectedReact = require('unexpected-react');

// then react
var React = require('react');

// ...and optionally the addons
var TestUtils = require('react-dom/test-utils');

// then our component(s)
var MyComponent = require('../MyComponent);

// define our instance of the `expect` function to use unexpected-react
const expect = unexpected.clone()
    .use(unexpectedReact);
    
describe('MyComponent', function () {
    it('renders a button', function () {
        var component = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(<MyComponent />);

        // All custom components and DOM elements are included in the tree,
        // so you can assert to whatever level you wish
        expect(component, 'to have rendered', 
          <MyComponent>
            <button>Click me</button>
          </MyComponent>);
    });
});

Using with Jest

unexpected-react works just the same with jest, complete with snapshot support (and you don't need your own DOM emulation, as jest has that built in). To use jest with the shallow and full renderers and include snapshot support, simply require unexpected-react/jest. Snapshotting the shallow renderer and the full DOM rendering works out of the box, no need to add any extra packages.

e.g.

const unexpectedReact = require('unexpected-react/jest');

const expect = require('unexpected')
  .clone()
  .use(unexpectedReact);

This expect will then be used instead of the default one provided by jest.

If you want to use the test renderer (the same as jest snapshots use), require unexpected-react/test-renderer-jest.

e.g.

const unexpectedReact = require('unexpected-react/test-renderer-jest');

const expect = require('unexpected')
  .clone()
  .use(unexpectedReact);

Emulating the DOM

If you're using Jest, you can skip this part, as it comes with built in jsdom support.

For React v16, we recommend using jsdom-global and the requireAnimationFrame polyfill from Erik Möller, Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel. For previous versions, you can use the boilerplate presented here.

The emulateDom file depends on whether you want to use domino, or jsdom. If you're using Jest, jsdom is built in, so you can ignore this section.

For jsdom:

// emulateDom.js - jsdom variant

if (typeof document === 'undefined') {

    const jsdom = require('jsdom').jsdom;
    global.document = jsdom('');
    global.window = global.document.defaultView;

    for (let key in global.window) {
        if (!global[key]) {
            global[key] = global.window[key];
        }
    }
}

For domino:

// emulateDom.js - domino variant

if (typeof document === 'undefined') {

    const domino = require('domino');
    global.window = domino.createWindow('');
    global.document = global.window.document;
    global.navigator = { userAgent: 'domino' };

    for (let key in global.window) {
        if (!global[key]) {
            global[key] = global.window[key];
        }
    }
}

React Compatibility

v5.x.x is compatible with React v16 and up v4.x.x is compatible with React v15.5 and up v3.x.x is compatible with React v0.14.x and v15. Warning with v15.5, but supported v2.x.x is compatible with React v0.13.x and v0.14.x

It is not planned to make further releases of the v2 and v3 branch, but if you still need 0.13 / 0.14 support, and are missing things from v4/5, please raise an issue.

Tests

For the shallow renderer, you can assert on the renderer itself (you can also write the same assertion for the result of getRenderOutput())

var renderer = TestUtils.createRenderer();

renderer.render(<MyButton />);

expect(renderer, 'to have rendered',
  <button>
      Button was clicked 1 times
  </button>
);

If this fails for some reason, you get a nicely formatted error, with the differences highlighted:

expected
<button onClick={function bound onClick() { /* native code */ }}>
  Button was clicked 0 times
</button>
to have rendered <button>Button was clicked 1 times</button>

<button onClick={function bound onClick() { /* native code */ }}>
  Button was clicked 0 times // -Button was clicked 0 times
                             // +Button was clicked 1 times
</button>

You can also use when rendered to directly render a component to a shallow renderer:

expect(<MyButton />, 
  'when rendered',
  'to have rendered',
  <button>
      Button was clicked 1 times
  </button>
);

If you've emulated the DOM, you can write a similar test, but using ReactDOM.render() (or TestUtils.renderIntoDocument())

var component = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(<MyButton/>)
expect(component, 'to have rendered',
  <button>
      Button was clicked 1 times
  </button>
);

expected
<MyButton>
  <button onClick={function bound onClick() { /* native code */ }}>
    Button was clicked 0 times
  </button>
</MyButton>
to have rendered <button>Button was clicked 1 times</button>

<MyButton>
  <button onClick={function bound onClick() { /* native code */ }}>
    Button was clicked 0 times // -Button was clicked 0 times
                               // +Button was clicked 1 times
  </button>
</MyButton>

Note the major difference between the shallow renderer and the "normal" renderer, is that child components are also rendered. That is easier to see with these example components:

var Text = React.createClass({
   render() {
       return <span>{this.props.content}</span>;
   }
});

var App = React.createClass({
   render() {
        return (
            <div className="testing-is-fun">
              <Text content="hello" />
              <Text content="world" />
            </div>
        );
   }
});

Rendering the App component with the shallow renderer will not render the spans, only the Text component with the props. If you wanted to test for the content of the span elements, you'd need to use TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(...), or ReactDOM.render(...)

Because unexpected-react` by default ignores wrapper elements, and also "extra" children (child nodes that appear in the actual render, but are not in the expected result), it is possible to test both scenarios with the full renderer. To demonstrate, all the following tests will pass:

var component = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(<App />);

// renders the Text components with the spans with the full renderer
expect(component, 'to have rendered', 
  <App>
    <div className="testing-is-fun">
      <Text content="hello">
        <span>hello</span>
      </Text>
      <Text content="world">
        <span>world</span>
      </Text>
    </div>
  </App>
);

// renders the Text nodes with the full renderer'
   
expect(component, 'to have rendered', 
  <div className="testing-is-fun">
      <Text content="hello" />
      <Text content="world" />
  </div>
);

// renders the spans with the full renderer

expect(component, 'to have rendered', 
  <div className="testing-is-fun">
      <span>hello</span>
      <span>world</span>
  </div>
);

The first test shows the full virtual DOM that gets rendered. The second test skips the <App> "wrapper" component, and leaves out the <span> children of the <Text> components. The third tests skips both the <App> wrapper component, and the <Text> wrapper component.

Stateless components

Because stateless components can't be instantiated, renderIntoDocument won't return an instance back. Using the shallow renderer works as shown in the first example. For full rendering, use the when deeply rendered to render the component

expect(<StatelessComponent name="Daniel" />, 
  'when deeply rendered', 
  'to have rendered',
  <div>Hello, Daniel!</div>);

Cleaning up

When using the normal renderer, unexpected-react makes use of react-render-hook, which utilises the code from the React devtools. As there is no way for react-render-hook to know when a test is completed, it has to keep a reference to every rendered component. Whilst this shouldn't normally be an issue, if you use a test runner that keeps the process alive (such as wallaby.js), it is a good idea to call unexpectedReact.clearAll() in a global beforeEach() or afterEach() block. This clears the cache of rendered nodes.

Roadmap / Plans

[DONE] There are some performance optimisations to do. The performance suffers a bit due to the possible asynchronous nature of the inline assertions. Most of the time these will be synchronous, and hence we don't need to pay the price.
[DONE] ~~queried for implementation~~
[DONE] ~~Directly calling events on both the shallow renderer, and the full virtual DOM renderer~~
[DONE] ~~Support Snapshot testing in Jest~~
Cleanup output - where there are no differences to highlight, we could skip the branch

Contributing

We welcome pull requests, bug reports, and extra test cases. If you find something that doesn't work as you believe it should, or where the output isn't as good as it could be, raise an issue!

Thanks

Huge thanks to @Munter for unexpected-dom, and along with @dmatteo from Podio for handing over the unexpected-react name.

Unexpected is a great library to work with, and I offer my sincere thanks to @sunesimonsen and @papandreou, who have created an assertion library that makes testing JavaScript a joy.

License

MIT

alexjeffburke/unexpected-react