cypress-react-unit-test

A little helper to unit test Vue components in the open source Cypress.io E2E test runner ALPHA

TLDR

• What is this? This package allows you to use Cypress test runner to unit test your React components with zero effort.

• How is this different from Enzyme? It is similar in functionality BUT runs the component in the real browser with full power of Cypress E2E test runner: live GUI, full API, screen recording, CI support, cross-platform.

Known problems

• some DOM events are not working when running all tests at once #4
• cannot mock server XHR for injected components #5
• cannot spy on window.alert #6

Install

Requires Node version 6 or above.

npm install --save-dev cypress cypress-react-unit-test

Use

// import the component you want to test
import { HelloState } from '../../src/hello-x.jsx'
import React from 'react'
import { mount } from 'cypress-react-unit-test'
describe('HelloState component', () => {
  it('works', () => {
    // mount the component under test
    mount(<HelloState />)
    // start testing!
    cy.contains('Hello Spider-man!')
    // mounted component is returned from Cypress.component()
    Cypress.component().invoke('setState', {name: 'React'})
    Cypress.component().its('state').should('deep.equal', {
      name: 'React'
    })
    // check if GUI has rerendered
    cy.contains('Hello React!')
  })
})

Transpilation

How can we use features that require transpilation? Using @cypress/webpack-preprocessor. You can use cypress/plugins/index.js to configure any transpilation plugins you need.

For example, to enable class properties:

// cypress/plugins/index.js
const webpack = require('@cypress/webpack-preprocessor')
const webpackOptions = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.(js|jsx|mjs)$/,
        loader: 'babel-loader',
        options: {
          presets: ['env', 'react'],
          plugins: ['transform-class-properties'],
        },
      }
    ]
  }
}

const options = {
  // send in the options from your webpack.config.js, so it works the same
  // as your app's code
  webpackOptions,
  watchOptions: {}
}

module.exports = on => {
  on('file:preprocessor', webpack(options))
}

Install dev dependencies

npm i -D @cypress/webpack-preprocessor \
  babel-loader babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react \
  babel-plugin-transform-class-properties

And write a component using class properties

import React from 'react'

export class Transpiled extends React.Component {
  state = {
    count: 0
  }

  // ...
}

Examples

All components are in src folder. All tests are in cypress/integration folder.

• hello-world-spec.js - testing the simplest React component from hello-world.jsx
• hello-x-spec.js - testing React component with props and state hello-x.jsx
• counter-spec.js clicks on the component and confirms the result
• stateless-spec.js shows testing a stateless component from stateless.jsx
• transpiled-spec.js shows testing a component with class properties syntax from transpiled.jsx
• users-spec.js shows how to observe XHR requests, mock server responses for component users.jsx
• alert-spec.js shows how to spy on window.alert calls from your component stateless-alert.jsx

Large examples

• bahmutov/calculator tests multiple components: calculator App, Button, Display.

Related tools

Same feature for unit testing components from other framesworks using Cypress

• cypress-vue-unit-test for Vue.js
• cypress-hyperapp-unit-test for Hyperapp
• cypress-svelte-unit-test for Svelte.js