Test Renderer

Importing

import TestRenderer from 'react-test-renderer'; // ES6
const TestRenderer = require('react-test-renderer'); // ES5 with npm

Overview

This package provides a React renderer that can be used to render React components to pure JavaScript objects, without depending on the DOM or a native mobile environment.

Essentially, this package makes it easy to grab a snapshot of the platform view hierarchy (similar to a DOM tree) rendered by a React DOM or React Native component without using a browser or jsdom.

Example:

import TestRenderer from 'react-test-renderer';

function Link(props) {
  return <a href={props.page}>{props.children}</a>;
}

const testRenderer = TestRenderer.create(
  <Link page="https://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</Link>
);

console.log(testRenderer.toJSON());
// { type: 'a',
//   props: { href: 'https://www.facebook.com/' },
//   children: [ 'Facebook' ] }

You can use Jest’s snapshot testing feature to automatically save a copy of the JSON tree to a file and check in your tests that it hasn’t changed: Learn more about it.

You can also traverse the output to find specific nodes and make assertions about them.

import TestRenderer from 'react-test-renderer';

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <div>
      <SubComponent foo="bar" />
      <p className="my">Hello</p>
    </div>
  )
}

function SubComponent() {
  return (
    <p className="sub">Sub</p>
  );
}

const testRenderer = TestRenderer.create(<MyComponent />);
const testInstance = testRenderer.root;

expect(testInstance.findByType(SubComponent).props.foo).toBe('bar');
expect(testInstance.findByProps({className: "sub"}).children).toEqual(['Sub']);

Reference

`TestRenderer.create()`

TestRenderer.create(element, options);

Create a TestRenderer instance with the passed React element. It doesn’t use the real DOM, but it still fully renders the component tree into memory so you can make assertions about it. Returns a TestRenderer instance.

`TestRenderer.act()`

TestRenderer.act(callback);

Similar to the act() helper from react-dom/test-utils, TestRenderer.act prepares a component for assertions. Use this version of act() to wrap calls to TestRenderer.create and testRenderer.update.

import {create, act} from 'react-test-renderer';
import App from './app.js'; // The component being tested

// render the component
let root; 
act(() => {
  root = create(<App value={1}/>)
});

// make assertions on root 
expect(root.toJSON()).toMatchSnapshot();

// update with some different props
act(() => {
  root.update(<App value={2}/>);
})

// make assertions on root 
expect(root.toJSON()).toMatchSnapshot();

Overview

TestRenderer

TestRenderer instance

TestInstance

Reference

TestRenderer.create()

TestRenderer.act()

`TestRenderer.create()`

`TestRenderer.act()`