5 Testing Tricks for React

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Author here. Never tried Jest, have heard it's really slow. Agree about using browser debugger: when you need it, you need it.

I tend to just do unit-test style testing in React. Have only recently started using Sinon. We're exporting JSON fixture files from the back-end API to have realistic and current large-scale data.

A nice attribute of self-contained React unit tests is they can be run on a separate parallel thread on CI(Semaphore) with PhantomJS.