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Jest Testing

Explore how to use Jest for testing React UI components. Understand the benefits of Jest, naming conventions for test files, and how to run tests automatically with watchers as part of continuous integration.

Benefits of using Jest

Several testing libraries and frameworks are available for JavaScript. Among them, Jest has several decisive advantages when working with React:

  • Like React, it was created by Facebook, and the two work very well together.

  • Jest has useful functions for evaluating component renderings.

  • Jest runs the tests quickly.

  • It’s easy to run tests ...