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Creating a React App

  1. In the terminal run: npx create-react-app NAME-OF-APP
  2. Cd into the new directory: cd NAME-OF-APP
  3. Run: npm install.
  4. You can run npm start to see if the app was set up correctly.

Setup Redux

  1. npm i redux react-redux redux-devtools-extension -S
  • redux - Allows us to have access to using Redux in our app.
  • react-redux - Allows us to connect our react components to our Redux store.
  • redux-devtools-extension - Useful for debugging in our devtools
  1. In src/index.js

import { Provider } from 'react-redux';

  • a component from react-redux that wraps our App component and allows each child component to be connected to the store

import { createStore } from 'redux';

  • a function from Redux that uses the rootReducer to create the store

import { composeWithDevTools } from 'redux-devtools-extension';

  • a method we brought in and can pass as an argument with createStore so that we have access to our devtools and can view our store.

import { rootReducer } from './reducers';

  • our combined reducers to create our store

(order matters here)

const store = createStore(rootReducer, composeWithDevTools())

ReactDOM.render(
  <Provider store={store}>
    <App />
  </Provider>,
  document.getElementById('root')
);
  1. In actions/index.js
  1. In src/reducers/index.js
import { combineReducers } from 'redux';
import { todos } from './todos';

export const rootReducer = combineReducers({
  todos: todos
});

**Where we define the properties that will exsits in our global store

  1. npm i redux-thunk -S

Setup Backend

  1. Clone repo, not nested in project directory
  2. Globally install nodemon. Runs the server.
  3. npm install nodemon -g
  4. cd into repo
  5. Run npm install
  6. Run npm start
  7. Use Postman to checkout the data

Setting Up Testing

  1. Install Enzyme: npm i enzyme -D
  2. Install Enzyme Adapter: npm install enzyme-adapter-react-16 -D
  3. Inside of /src create setupTests.js: touch src/setupTests.js
  4. Put the following 3 lines of code in setupTests.js
import { configure } from 'enzyme';
import Adapter from 'enzyme-adapter-react-16';

configure({ adapter: new Adapter() });
  1. For snapshot testing, install Enzyme Wrappers: npm install enzyme-to-json -D
  2. Add serializer to package.json:
  "jest": {
    "snapshotSerializers": [
      "enzyme-to-json/serializer"
    ]
  }

Don't forget the comma!

  1. Add an extra line in App.js (just so there's a change in the file) and save. Then run npm test to check that the files are connected correctly.
  2. Include the following lines as headers for all test files:
import React from 'react';
import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
import ClassName from './ClassName';

Check Testing Coverage

npm test -- --coverage --watchAll=false

Setting Up ESLint

  1. ESLint is already built in with create-react-app. Installing another eslint will likely break things.
  2. Add a script called "lint": "eslint src/" in your package.json (in the scripts object)
  3. In your terminal, run: npm run lint
  4. Turing Mod3 Linter

Install SCSS/Sass

  1. Run: npm install node-sass --save
  2. Add variable file: touch src/variables.scss
  3. Change all .css file extentions to .scss
  • index.css App.css => index.scss App.scss
  1. Remeber to update the file paths anywhere the style files are being imported
  2. Add: @import './src/variables.scss'; To any .scss files you want to uses variables
  3. Format for creating variables: $var-name: var-value;

propTypes

npm install prop-types -S
In file:
import PropTypes from 'prop-types'

Component.propTypes = {
  prop1: PropTypes.array.isRequired,
  prop2: PropTypes.any,
  prop3: PropTypes.func.isRequired,
  prop4: PropTypes.bool
  prop5: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  prop6: PropTypes.number
}

Router

  1. npm i react-router-dom -S
  2. In index.js
import { BrowserRouter } from 'react-router-dom'

const router = (
  <BrowserRouter>
    <App />
  </BrowserRouter>
)

ReactDOM.render(router, document.getElementById('root'));
  1. Import what is needed in components import { Route, NavLink, Link, Redirect, Switch} from 'react-router-dom'

Form - Change Handling

handleChange = e => {
  this.setState({ [e.target.name]: e.target.value})
}

In form:

<input
 type='text'
 value={this.state.title}
 name='title'
 onChange={this.handleChange}
/>

Fetch Calls

export const fetchMethod = () => {
  return fetch('url')
  .then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) {
      throw Error('Error Message');
    }
    return response.json();
  })
}

Adding Error to State/Rendering to Page

In state: error: ''
After fetch (in App.js/component file):

.catch(error => this.setState({ error: error.message }));

In render() method:
{error && <h2>{error}</h2>}

TESTING

import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
wrapper = shallow (<Component prop='string' prop2={2} method={jest.fn()} />
expect(wrapper).toMatchSnapshot()

Execution

wrapper.instance().methodName('optionalArgument')
wrapper.instance().forceUpdate()
wrapper.find('button').simulate('click', optionalEvent)
wrapper.instance().setState({ prop: 'value', prop2: 'value2' })
wrapper.find('[name='thing']').simulate('change', mockThingEvent)
wrapper.find('button').at(3).simulate('click')
expect(mockWhatEverEvent).toHaveBeenCalledWith('argument/value')

Testing State Change

const startState = {
      title: 'Trisha',
      description: 'She has a dog named Luna.'
    }
wrapper.setState(startState);
wrapper.instance().resetInputs();
expect(wrapper.state('title')).toEqual('');

Testing Form Change Handing

wrapper = shallow(<Form />);
const mockEvent = {target: {name: 'title', value: 'Jerry'}};
const expected = 'Jerry';
wrapper.instance().handleChange(mockEvent);
expect(wrapper.state('title')).toEqual(expected);

Testing That Method was Called

wrapper.instance().method2 = jest.fn();
wrapper.instance().method1(argument);
expect(wrapper.instance().method2).toHaveBeenCalled();

Testing Events (Click)

wrapper.find('button').simulate('click');
expect(function).toHaveBeenCalledWith(arguments);

Testing API Calls

describe('fetchMethod', () => {
    let mockResponse = [
      {object1},
      {object2}
    ];

    beforeEach(() => {
      window.fetch = jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => {
        return Promise.resolve({
          ok: true,
          json: () => {
            return Promise.resolve(mockResponse)
          }
        })
      })
    })

    it('should be provided with the correct URL', () => {
      fetchMethod();
      expect(window.fetch).toHaveBeenCalledWith('url')
    })

    it('should return an array of movies', () => {
      expect(fetchMethod()).resolves.toEqual(mockResponse)
    })

    it('should return an error for response not ok', () => {
      window.fetch = jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => {
        return Promise.resolve({
          ok: false
        })
      })

      expect(fetchMethod()).rejects.toEqual(Error('Error text'))
    })
  })

Mock Date.now()

global.Date.now = jest.spyOn(global.Date, 'now').mockImplementation(() => 123)

Can assert that the value of Date.now() will be 123 or whatever is set as the return value.

Mock e.preventDefault() Can be passed as arugments of event in other methods

const mockEvent = { preventDefault: jest.fn() } 

Mock Event

const mockThingEvent = { target: { name: 'thing', value: 'Thing value' } }

Expectation

expect(wrapper.instance().handleChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith(mockThingEvent)
expect(wrapper.state('thing')).toEqual('Thing value') or expect(wrapper.state()).toEqual(expected)
expect(wrapper.instance().method).toHaveBeenCalled()

Network Requests

POST

      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({
        id: value,
        prop: value,
      }),
      headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'  
      }
    }
    
    return fetch('url', options)
            .then(res => {
              if(!res.ok) {
                throw Error('Something is not right, try again later')
              }
              return res.json()})

DELETE

const options = {
    method: 'DELETE',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
  }

  return fetch(`url/${id}`, options)
    .then(res => {
      if(!res.ok) {
        throw Error('Something is not right, try again later')
      }
      return getFetch();
    }).catch(error => {
      throw Error(error.message)
    });
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