Useful Testing Tips
Explore essential testing tips for Vue applications that help you write robust and maintainable unit and end-to-end tests. Understand how to await async updates, use mounting wisely, focus on DOM output, and balance coverage goals. Learn to write tests that simulate user behavior without testing third-party libraries, and discern when to mock API requests for effective component isolation.
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Tips
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- If a component relies on fetching data from an API or determines if some HTML markup should be rendered conditionally in the mounted hook, ensure you correctly await it in your tests. You might need to wait for the
nextTickto ensure that Vue flushed all updates and patched the DOM. In the first version of Vue Test Utils, you need to wait fornextTick