Episode 84
84: Edd Yerburgh - Testing Vue.js Components
In this episode, Adam talks to Edd Yerburgh, Vue.js core team member and author of the vue-test-utils library, about testing Vue components.
March 14, 201844m 29s
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Show Notes
Topics include:
- Challenges with testing Vue components prior to vue-test-utils
- How vue-test-utils works and what it looks like to test a component
- Choosing a test runner
- Common mistakes people make when testing their components
- Mocking and stubbing external dependencies
- Combining unit testing with snapshot testing
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Links:
- vue-test-utils on GitHub
- vue-test-utils Documentation
- "Testing Vue.js Applications", Edd's book
- Enzyme testing utility for React
- jsdom
- Jest, Edd's recommended test runner
- mocha-webpack
- Mocking in Jest
- Snapshot testing in Jest
- Async Vue components
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