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JUnit vs react-testing-library: What are the differences?
Developers describe JUnit as "A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java". JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. On the other hand, react-testing-library is detailed as "A lightweight solution for testing React components". 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.
JUnit and react-testing-library belong to "Testing Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
JUnit and react-testing-library are both open source tools. react-testing-library with 8.25K GitHub stars and 464 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JUnit with 7.56K GitHub stars and 2.83K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, JUnit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 110 company stacks & 236 developers stacks; compared to react-testing-library, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of JUnit
Pros of react-testing-library
- We can test behavior3
- Good documentation1