The Wrapper Object

In this lesson, we will learn about the main object of `vue-test-utils: the Wrapper Object.

So far, we’ve made tests using Jest Snapshots. In most cases, that’s what we’ll use, but sometimes we want to assert something more specific.

Although you can access the Vue instance via cmp.vm, you have a set of utilities at your disposal to make it easier. Let’s see what we can do.

The Wrapper Object

The Wrapper is the main object of vue-test-utils. It is the type returned by mount, shallowMount, find and findAll functions.

find and findAll

They accept a selector as an argument, which can be both a CSS selector or a Vue Component.

So we can do things like:

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