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📘 Master comprehensive React testing techniques with this practical guide. Explore code examples and best practices for building reliable, maintainable, and scalable applications. 🔥

📘 Mastering React Testing

Welcome to the GitHub repository for the book "Mastering React Testing"! This book is your ultimate guide to mastering comprehensive testing techniques in React applications.

🛍️ Where to Purchase the Book

You can purchase "Mastering React Testing" on Gumroad. Visit the following link to get your copy and level up your React testing skills:

Gumroad - Mastering React Testing

📖 Table of Contents

1. 🎯 The Importance of Testing: We discuss the benefits of testing and its role in creating reliable, maintainable, and scalable applications.
2. 🛠️ Setting Up the Testing Environment: We introduce Jest, the popular testing framework for JavaScript, and React Testing Library, which simplifies testing React components.
3. 🧪 Testing React Components: We delve into the significance of testing user interactions with components, such as button clicks, form submissions, and input field changes. We examine the use of userEvent from the React Testing Library to simulate these interactions in a more realistic and comprehensive way. This allows us to validate the component's behavior in response to user actions.
4. 🚀 Advanced Testing Techniques: We explore techniques such as testing components with asynchronous behavior, using context and hooks, snapshot testing, mocking functions and modules, and testing custom hooks.
5. 🔗 Integration Testing: We highlight the importance of integration testing and provide examples of writing integration tests with Jest and React Testing Library.
6. 🌟 Testing Strategies and Patterns: We discuss Test-Driven Development (TDD), code coverage, and common testing patterns.
7. ⚙️ Optimizing and Scaling React Testing: We cover performance considerations, organizing and structuring test code.
8. ♿ Accessibility Testing: We emphasize the importance of accessibility testing and provide examples of writing accessibility tests using Jest and React Testing Library.

🌐 Resources for Further Learning

To continue learning about testing React applications, consider exploring the following resources:

1. Jest documentation
2. React Testing Library documentation
3. UserEvent documentation - Advanced simulation of browser interactions
4. React Design Patterns and Best Practices by Michele Bertoli
5. Testing JavaScript by Kent C. Dodds

🌟 Staying Up-to-Date with React Testing Developments

To stay current with the latest developments in React testing, follow these resources and communities:

1. React official blog
2. React Testing Library GitHub repository
3. Jest GitHub repository
4. React subreddit

📚 Book Code Examples

All the code examples used in the book can be found in this GitHub repository. Feel free to clone or fork the repository to follow along with the book.

❤️ Made with Love by Khem Sok

I'm excited to embark on this journey with you, and I hope that the knowledge and techniques shared in this book will make a positive impact on your testing practices. Let's dive deep and explore the world of React testing together!