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Version: 5.0

Unit testing hooks

Hooks allow you to pull complex behaviors out of your components into succinct, composable functions. This makes testing component behavior potentially much easier. But how does this work if you want to use hooks from rest-hooks?

We have provided some simple utilities to reduce boilerplate for unit tests that are wrappers around @testing-library/react-hooks's renderHook().

We want a renderRestHook() function that renders in the context of both a Provider and Suspense boundary.

To support both providers, you must choose among two provider-generators to send as args to the renderRestHook() generator.

These will generally be done during test setup. It's important to call cleanup upon test completion.

Note:

renderRestHook() creates a Provider context with new manager instances. This means each call to renderRestHook() will result in a completely fresh cache state as well as manager state.

Polyfill fetch in node​

Node doesn't come with fetch out of the box, so we need to be sure to polyfill it.

npm install --saveDev  whatwg-fetch

Jest​

// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
  // other things
  setupFiles: ['./testSetup.js'],
};
// testSetup.js
require('whatwg-fetch');

Example:​

import nock from 'nock';
import { makeRenderRestHook, makeCacheProvider } from '@rest-hooks/test';

describe('useResource()', () => {
  let renderRestHook: ReturnType<typeof makeRenderRestHook>;

  beforeEach(() => {
    nock(/.*/)
      .persist()
      .defaultReplyHeaders({
        'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      })
      .options(/.*/)
      .reply(200)
      .get(`/article/0`)
      .reply(403, {});
    renderRestHook = makeRenderRestHook(makeCacheProvider);
  });

  afterEach(() => {
    nock.cleanAll();
  });

  it('should throw errors on bad network', async () => {
    const { result, waitForNextUpdate } = renderRestHook(() => {
      return useResource(ArticleResource.detail(), {
        title: '0',
      });
    });
    expect(result.current).toBeUndefined();
    await waitForNextUpdate();
    expect(result.error).toBeDefined();
    expect((result.error as any).status).toBe(403);
  });
});