Commands for Testing: React Applications
Explore how to automate testing for React applications by using Git pre-commit scripts and command line commands. Understand setting environment variables to run Jest tests once without watchers, ensuring that tests run efficiently during development. Learn to manage testing across multiple React apps with smooth directory navigation and chained test execution.
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Introduction
In previous chapters, we’ve seen that we can run tests with pytest and Jest, and compile documentation with Sphinx all from the command line. Therefore, we can automate them. If a test fails, the script will fail, and the commit will be rejected.
It’s useful to know that the Git hook scripts will be executed with the repository’s root as their working directory regardless of where in the repository the git commit command was ...