Why developers like react-testing-library

What is react-testing-library?

It is a simple and complete React DOM testing utility that encourage good testing practices. It provides light utility functions on top of react-dom and react-dom/test-utils, in a way that encourages better testing practices.

react-testing-library is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.

react-testing-library is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to react-testing-library's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses react-testing-library?

Companies

87 companies reportedly use react-testing-library in their tech stacks, including Graphy, Zé Delivery, and OmniPlatform.

Graphy

Zé Delivery

OmniPlatform

partipost

SplitC

Hivebrite

commercetools

caredoc

Braincube

Developers

166 developers on StackShare have stated that they use react-testing-library.

My Stack

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Quack Stack

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react-testing-library Integrations

React

AngularJS

Vue.js

Pros of react-testing-library

We can test behavior

Good documentation

Decisions about react-testing-library

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose react-testing-library in their tech stack.

Bryam Rodriguez

Feb 5, 2020 | 22 upvotes · 3.1M views

Shared insights

RunaHR

I'm working as one of the engineering leads in RunaHR. As our platform is a Saas, we thought It'd be good to have an API (We chose Ruby and Rails for this) and a SPA (built with React and Redux ) connected. We started the SPA with Create React App since It's pretty easy to start.

We use Jest as the testing framework and react-testing-library to test React components. In Rails we make tests using RSpec.

Our main database is PostgreSQL, but we also use MongoDB to store some type of data. We started to use Redis for cache and other time sensitive operations.

We have a couple of extra projects: One is an Employee app built with React Native and the other is an internal back office dashboard built with Next.js for the client and Python in the backend side.

Since we have different frontend apps we have found useful to have Bit to document visual components and utils in JavaScript.

Esther Breslauer

Feb 16, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 92.6K views

Needs advice

Cypress

Selenide

and

WebdriverIO

Hi, I am starting out to test an application that is currently being developed - FE: React. BE: Node JS. I want the framework to be able to test all UI scenarios (from simple to complex) and also have the capability to test APIs. I also need to run tests across all OSs and Browsers (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS). I have also looked into react-testing-library and @TestProject.io. Any advice you can give as to which framework would be best and why would be so much appreciated! Thank you!!

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react-testing-library's Features

light-weight solution for testing
React DOM testing utilities
works with any environment that provides DOM APIs

react-testing-library Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to react-testing-library?

Enzyme

Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output.

Cypress

Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.

Jest

Jest provides you with multiple layers on top of Jasmine.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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