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A dive into JavaScript and React testing with Mocha using Chai, Sinon, and Enzyme.

javascript-testing-and-react

A dive into JavaScript and React testing with Mocha using Chai, Sinon, and Enzyme.

This is the source code for a talk given by Josh Goldberg, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft in Office Sway, for Ada Developer Academy on 6/15/2017. That's me!

I'll cover some preliminary testing practices and protips for JavaScript, then show how they can be used with React:

1. Basic Terms
2. Mocha
3. Chai
4. Avoiding Singletons
5. Sinon
6. Enzyme

All the source code is here / in a GitHub repo.

Preliminary Setup

First make sure you have NodeJS >=7 installed by running node --version.

Git clone this repo to your compuer.

cd wherever/you/keep/your/code
git clone https://github.com/JoshuaKGoldberg/javascript-testing-and-react
cd javascript-testing-and-react

Install the prerequisite libraries. (If you're on Mac or Linux, you should prepend sudo to the mocha install command.

npm install -g mocha
npm install

Code samples

Markdown code samples are approximate subsets of .js files in the same section. You'll want to play along by running the test files using mocha path/to/test.js.