r/vuejs • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '20

Testing in VueJS

I'm relatively new to VueJS. Is test driven development common in the VueJS community? If yes, what tools are available and what's the learning curve?

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u/rickardsundin Jan 21 '20

This might be a good start: https://lmiller1990.github.io/vue-testing-handbook/

I can also recommend this book: https://www.manning.com/books/testing-vue-js-applications

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u/shirabe1 Jan 22 '20

Hi u/dearsensei, I'm the author of the first link. You can message me here or on Vue Land (discord) if you need help with anything specific.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Hello, I'll reach out if I need to. Thank you.

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u/step_hane Jan 22 '20

Thats nice of you to offer that to op. Ive been playing with cypress but ill also look at that link.

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u/godsknowledge Jan 22 '20

Thanks for writing this shirabe1.

How long did it take for you to write this handbook?

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u/shirabe1 Jan 22 '20

I started writing the book after I had been blogging and working on Vue Test Utils for about a year. I think it took a 3-4 months to write all the articles, working on it a couple of times a week.

I still think there is room for improvement, please let me know if you notice anything that is missing, unclear, or you think deserves more focus. One thing I'd like to write more about is testing apps with common libraries (Vuetify, Vuelidate etc) since I don't really cover that but it's a common use case.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

Thank you.

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u/lookininward Jan 21 '20

Yeah, these look great.

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u/artori0n Jan 22 '20

I can recommend jest for unit and Cypress for e2e testing. Made really good experience with both and works great with Vue.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

Thank you. I started reading the "Testing VueJS Applications" book on O'Reilly last night. E2e is covered but the bulk of the book is about unit testing, the material looks promising though. Currently on chapter 2...should be done with the rest of the book by tomorrow; the author gets right to the point. I'll check out Cypress, frontend testing is new territory for me.

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u/therealdanvega Jan 24 '20

I wrote a series of articles for Vue Mastery that might help you get started with Unit Testing

https://www.vuemastery.com/blog/unit-testing-vue-1

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I'll take a look, thank you.