React JSPM testing framework

Question

What is the best testing framework and its associated helper libraries to use for a project in React and JSPM? I'm looking for various libraries combined together and what is specific to that set which makes it a powerful toolset? (Looking to incorporate redux later on)

Answer 1

I recently build testing environment for a react application using JSPM.

I first wanted to use Jest , as it is recommended by the community with react. But then I found out that thread , saying support for JSPM/SystemJs wasn't on the roadmap at the moment.

Although it exists some work to make it work, see for example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/systemjs-jest

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Then I chose to use Jasmine as it is quite known in my company, and I already worked with it. Also I think Jest used to be based on Jasmine , so many react-specific matchers developed for Jest are also compatible with Jasmine .

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So I ended up using Jasmine with Karma , using karma-jasmine and karma-uiuxengineering-jspm .

Make sure to read the documentation of karma-uiuxengineering-jspm thoroughly, it took me some time to set the environment up.

Some nice additions:
- jasmine-enzyme (installed with JSPM)
- karma-mocha-reporter (installed with npm)
- karma-phantomjs-launcher (installed with npm)