Component Testing with Enzyme
Learn how to Test simple React components with Enzyme using shallow rendering.
We'll cover the following...
As mentioned earlier, our project for the rest of the course is building a carousel. A carousel is a widget that shows a series of images to the user one at a time. The user has the ability to move between adjacent images in the series. The carousel can also auto-advance, like a slideshow. By the end of the course, our carousel will look like this:
Since this is fairly complex, we’re going to implement it as a primary component called Carousel with two secondary components:
CarouselSlide, an image shown in the carouselCarouselButton, a button that lets the user control the slides
Let’s start by writing some tests for the simplest component: CarouselButton is just going to render a <button>. Why componentize it at all? Because we’re going to add styling to that <button> in the next chapter. We’ll make assertions about the component using a ...