🧪 Exploring testing libraries

24th December 2020

I've been thinking about writing up some next.js testing docs, since this ares is notably absent from the official write-up. To do that, I've been exploring the updates in front-end testing tools. Things have moved on somewhat from what I've been using in work projects; react-testing-library has come along and (it seems) displaced enzyme, and cypress looks like it could be much nicer to use than selenium and friends.

The React testing docs look to be a great reference, and probably a good launching-off point for finding the gold standard for tools. From here, I'm planning to continue exploring these options in this experiment and eventually settle on a pattern that we can use in WeekLog 3.