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Cypress and React

Explore how to use Cypress for testing React components, focusing on overcoming issues with styled components' dynamic class names. Learn to add test-friendly attributes to components and write tests that verify UI behaviors, ensuring robust testing and troubleshooting in your Rails frontend.

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The problem with styled components

We don’t need to do anything, in general, to test React, since the Cypress tests don’t care about the underlying framework. We do, however, have a specific problem relating to the React tools in our code. That problem is named styled components.

Styled components, which we added to our ...