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React Testing Tools: Enzyme vs React Testing Library

Both Enzyme and React Testing Library are popular tools for testing React applications, but they have different philosophies. Enzyme focuses on testing component internals and implementation details, allowing developers to manipulate component state and props directly. React Testing Library encourages testing components the way users would interact with them, focusing on accessibility and user behavior rather than implementation details.

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Detailed Comparison

Technical Analysis

featureComparison

Enzyme provides a more comprehensive set of utility functions for testing React components, including shallow rendering, full rendering, and static rendering. React-testing-library focuses on providing a simple and intuitive API for testing React components, with a focus on encouraging good testing practices.

typescriptSupport

Both packages support TypeScript, with enzyme requiring a separate @types/enzyme package and react-testing-library including TypeScript definitions out of the box.

browserCompatibility

Both packages are compatible with modern browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

dependencies

Enzyme has a larger dependency tree, including dependencies like cheerio and jsdom. React-testing-library has a smaller dependency tree, with fewer dependencies.

performance

React-testing-library is generally faster and more lightweight than enzyme, due to its simpler architecture and fewer dependencies.

Ecosystem Analysis

frameworkCompatibility

Both packages are compatible with React, with enzyme also supporting other frameworks like React Native.

communityActivity

React-testing-library has a more active community, with more contributors and a faster pace of development.

documentationQuality

Both packages have high-quality documentation, with react-testing-library's documentation being more comprehensive and easier to navigate.

maintenanceStatus

React-testing-library is maintained by the React team, ensuring a high level of maintenance and support. Enzyme is maintained by Airbnb, with a slightly slower pace of development.

Performance Comparison

bundleSizeAnalysis

React-testing-library has a significantly smaller bundle size than enzyme, making it a better choice for production applications.

runtimePerformance

React-testing-library is generally faster than enzyme, due to its simpler architecture and fewer dependencies.

loadingTime

React-testing-library has a faster loading time than enzyme, due to its smaller bundle size and fewer dependencies.

memoryUsage

React-testing-library uses less memory than enzyme, due to its more efficient architecture and fewer dependencies.

Code Examples

Shallow Rendering with Enzyme

1import React from 'react';
2import { shallow } from 'enzyme';
3import MyComponent from './MyComponent';
4
5const wrapper = shallow(<MyComponent />);
6expect(wrapper.find('div').length).toBe(1);

This example shows how to use enzyme's shallow rendering function to test a React component.

Rendering with React Testing Library

1import React from 'react';
2import { render, fireEvent, waitFor } from '@testing-library/react';
3import MyComponent from './MyComponent';
4
5const { getByText } = render(<MyComponent />);
6fireEvent.click(getByText('Click me'));
7waitFor(() => getByText('Button clicked'));

This example shows how to use react-testing-library's render function to test a React component, along with the fireEvent and waitFor utilities.

Recommendation

Summary

React-testing-library is a more modern and lightweight testing library, with a stronger focus on good testing practices. Enzyme is a more comprehensive testing library, with a larger set of utility functions.

Details

  • React-testing-library is a better choice for most use cases, due to its simplicity and focus on good testing practices.
  • Enzyme is a better choice for complex testing scenarios, where a larger set of utility functions is required.

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Works perfectly with React Testing Library and makes DOM testing much easier. It's like having extra tools to check what's on your webpage during tests.

Testing Utilities

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A special testing tool just for React hooks. It lets you test custom hooks without needing to create full components.

Perfect alternative when you're specifically testing React hooks. Much simpler than trying to test hooks with Enzyme or regular React Testing Library.

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A lightweight testing utility that helps you test React components. It provides simple functions to check what's showing up on the screen in your tests.

Good for beginners who find Enzyme or React Testing Library too complex. It has fewer features but is easier to learn and use.

Testing Framework

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The Vue.js equivalent of Enzyme/React Testing Library. It helps you test Vue components in a similar way to how you'd test React components.

Perfect alternative if you're switching from React to Vue.js. It follows similar testing patterns but is made specifically for Vue components.

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A complete testing tool that lets you test your whole website like a real user would. You can click buttons, fill forms, and see everything happen in a real browser.

While different from Enzyme/RTL, it's becoming very popular because it tests your app more realistically. It can do everything from unit tests to full website testing.

End-to-End Testing

Enzyme

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Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to test your React Components' output. You can also manipulate, traverse, and in some ways simulate runtime given the output.

Enzyme's API is meant to be intuitive and flexible by mimicking jQuery's API for DOM manipulation and traversal.

Upgrading from Enzyme 2.x or React < 16

Are you here to check whether or not Enzyme is compatible with React 16? Are you currently using Enzyme 2.x? Great! Check out our migration guide for help moving on to Enzyme v3 where React 16 is supported.

Installation

To get started with enzyme, you can simply install it via npm. You will need to install enzyme along with an Adapter corresponding to the version of react (or other UI Component library) you are using. For instance, if you are using enzyme with React 16, you can run:

npm i --save-dev enzyme enzyme-adapter-react-16

Each adapter may have additional peer dependencies which you will need to install as well. For instance, enzyme-adapter-react-16 has peer dependencies on react and react-dom.

At the moment, Enzyme has adapters that provide compatibility with React 16.x, React 15.x, React 0.14.x and React 0.13.x.

The following adapters are officially provided by enzyme, and have the following compatibility with React:

| Enzyme Adapter Package | React semver compatibility | | --- | --- | | enzyme-adapter-react-16 | ^16.4.0-0 | | enzyme-adapter-react-16.3 | ~16.3.0-0 | | enzyme-adapter-react-16.2 | ~16.2 | | enzyme-adapter-react-16.1 | ~16.0.0-0 \|\| ~16.1 | | enzyme-adapter-react-15 | ^15.5.0 | | enzyme-adapter-react-15.4 | 15.0.0-0 - 15.4.x | | enzyme-adapter-react-14 | ^0.14.0 | | enzyme-adapter-react-13 | ^0.13.0 |

Finally, you need to configure enzyme to use the adapter you want it to use. To do this, you can use the top level configure(...) API.

import Enzyme from 'enzyme'; import Adapter from 'enzyme-adapter-react-16'; Enzyme.configure({ adapter: new Adapter() });

3rd Party Adapters

It is possible for the community to create additional (non-official) adapters that will make enzyme work with other libraries. If you have made one and it's not included in the list below, feel free to make a PR to this README and add a link to it! The known 3rd party adapters are:

| Adapter Package | For Library | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | enzyme-adapter-preact-pure | preact | (stable) | |enzyme-adapter-inferno|inferno|(work in progress)|

Running Enzyme Tests

Enzyme is unopinionated regarding which test runner or assertion library you use, and should be compatible with all major test runners and assertion libraries out there. The documentation and examples for enzyme use mocha and chai, but you should be able to extrapolate to your framework of choice.

If you are interested in using enzyme with custom assertions and convenience functions for testing your React components, you can consider using:

  • chai-enzyme with Mocha/Chai.
  • jasmine-enzyme with Jasmine.
  • jest-enzyme with Jest.
  • should-enzyme for should.js.
  • expect-enzyme for expect.

Using Enzyme with Mocha

Using Enzyme with Karma

Using Enzyme with Browserify

Using Enzyme with SystemJS

Using Enzyme with Webpack

Using Enzyme with JSDOM

Using Enzyme with React Native

Using Enzyme with Jest

Using Enzyme with Lab

Using Enzyme with Tape and AVA

Basic Usage

Shallow Rendering

import React from 'react'; import { expect } from 'chai'; import { shallow } from 'enzyme'; import sinon from 'sinon'; import MyComponent from './MyComponent'; import Foo from './Foo'; describe('<MyComponent />', () => { it('renders three <Foo /> components', () => { const wrapper = shallow(<MyComponent />); expect(wrapper.find(Foo)).to.have.lengthOf(3); }); it('renders an `.icon-star`', () => { const wrapper = shallow(<MyComponent />); expect(wrapper.find('.icon-star')).to.have.lengthOf(1); }); it('renders children when passed in', () => { const wrapper = shallow(( <MyComponent> <div className="unique" /> </MyComponent> )); expect(wrapper.contains(<div className="unique" />)).to.equal(true); }); it('simulates click events', () => { const onButtonClick = sinon.spy(); const wrapper = shallow(<Foo onButtonClick={onButtonClick} />); wrapper.find('button').simulate('click'); expect(onButtonClick).to.have.property('callCount', 1); }); });

Read the full API Documentation

Full DOM Rendering

import React from 'react'; import sinon from 'sinon'; import { expect } from 'chai'; import { mount } from 'enzyme'; import Foo from './Foo'; describe('<Foo />', () => { it('allows us to set props', () => { const wrapper = mount(<Foo bar="baz" />); expect(wrapper.props().bar).to.equal('baz'); wrapper.setProps({ bar: 'foo' }); expect(wrapper.props().bar).to.equal('foo'); }); it('simulates click events', () => { const onButtonClick = sinon.spy(); const wrapper = mount(( <Foo onButtonClick={onButtonClick} /> )); wrapper.find('button').simulate('click'); expect(onButtonClick).to.have.property('callCount', 1); }); it('calls componentDidMount', () => { sinon.spy(Foo.prototype, 'componentDidMount'); const wrapper = mount(<Foo />); expect(Foo.prototype.componentDidMount).to.have.property('callCount', 1); Foo.prototype.componentDidMount.restore(); }); });

Read the full API Documentation

Static Rendered Markup

import React from 'react'; import { expect } from 'chai'; import { render } from 'enzyme'; import Foo from './Foo'; describe('<Foo />', () => { it('renders three `.foo-bar`s', () => { const wrapper = render(<Foo />); expect(wrapper.find('.foo-bar')).to.have.lengthOf(3); }); it('renders the title', () => { const wrapper = render(<Foo title="unique" />); expect(wrapper.text()).to.contain('unique'); }); });

Read the full API Documentation

React Hooks support

Enzyme supports react hooks with some limitations in .shallow() due to upstream issues in React's shallow renderer:

  • useEffect() and useLayoutEffect() don't get called in the React shallow renderer. Related issue

  • useCallback() doesn't memoize callback in React shallow renderer. Related issue

ReactTestUtils.act() wrap

If you're using React 16.8+ and .mount(), Enzyme will wrap apis including .simulate(), .setProps(), .setContext(), .invoke() with ReactTestUtils.act() so you don't need to manually wrap it.

A common pattern to trigger handlers with .act() and assert is:

const wrapper = mount(<SomeComponent />); act(() => wrapper.prop('handler')()); wrapper.update(); expect(/* ... */);

We cannot wrap the result of .prop() (or .props()) with .act() in Enzyme internally since it will break the equality of the returned value. However, you could use .invoke() to simplify the code:

const wrapper = mount(<SomeComponent />); wrapper.invoke('handler')(); expect(/* ... */);

Future

Enzyme Future

Contributing

See the Contributors Guide

In the wild

Organizations and projects using enzyme can list themselves here.

License

MIT

react-testing-library has moved to @testing-library/react. Please uninstall react-testing-library and install @testing-library/react instead, or use an older version of react-testing-library. Learn more about this change here: https://github.com/testing-library/dom-testing-library/issues/260 Thanks! :)

Dependencies Comparison

enzyme

Dependencies

array.prototype.flat^1.2.3
cheerio^1.0.0-rc.3
enzyme-shallow-equal^1.0.1
function.prototype.name^1.1.2
has^1.0.3
html-element-map^1.2.0
is-boolean-object^1.0.1
is-callable^1.1.5
is-number-object^1.0.4
is-regex^1.0.5
is-string^1.0.5
is-subset^0.1.1
lodash.escape^4.0.1
lodash.isequal^4.5.0
object-inspect^1.7.0
object-is^1.0.2
object.assign^4.1.0
object.entries^1.1.1
object.values^1.1.1
raf^3.4.1
rst-selector-parser^2.2.3
string.prototype.trim^1.2.1

Dev Dependencies

babel-cli^6.26.0
babel-plugin-transform-replace-object-assign^1.0.0
babel-preset-airbnb^2.6.0
eslint^6.7.2
eslint-config-airbnb^18.0.1
eslint-plugin-import^2.19.1
eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y^6.2.3
eslint-plugin-react^7.17.0
in-publish^2.0.0
jsdom^6.5.1
rimraf^2.7.1
safe-publish-latest^1.1.4

Peer Dependencies

react-testing-library

Dependencies

Dev Dependencies

Peer Dependencies

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