ReactNavigation.md

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react-navigation	React Navigation

This section deals with integrating react-native-testing-library with react-navigation, using Jest.

Setting up

Install the packages required for React Navigation. For this example, we will use a stack navigator to transition to the second page when any of the items are clicked on.

$ yarn add @react-native-community/masked-view @react-navigation/native @react-navigation/stack react-native-gesture-handler react-native-reanimated react-native-safe-area-context react-native-screens

Create an ./AppNavigator.js component which will list the navigation stack:

import 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import React from 'react';
import { createStackNavigator } from '@react-navigation/stack';

import HomeScreen from './screens/HomeScreen';
import DetailsScreen from './screens/DetailsScreen';

const { Screen, Navigator } = createStackNavigator();

export default function Navigation() {
  const options = {};

  return (
    <Navigator>
      <Screen name="Home" component={HomeScreen} />
      <Screen options={options} name="Details" component={DetailsScreen} />
    </Navigator>
  );
}

Create your two screens which we will transition to and from them. The homescreen, found in ./screens/HomeScreen.js, contains a list of elements presented in a list view. On tap of any of these items will move to the details screen with the item number:

import React from 'react';
import {
  Text,
  View,
  FlatList,
  TouchableOpacity,
  StyleSheet,
} from 'react-native';

export default function HomeScreen({ navigation }) {
  const [items] = React.useState(
    new Array(20).fill(null).map((_, idx) => idx + 1)
  );

  const onOpacityPress = (item) => navigation.navigate('Details', item);

  return (
    <View>
      <Text style={styles.header}>List of numbers from 1 to 20</Text>
      <FlatList
        keyExtractor={(_, idx) => `${idx}`}
        data={items}
        renderItem={({ item }) => (
          <TouchableOpacity
            onPress={() => onOpacityPress(item)}
            style={styles.row}
          >
            <Text>Item number {item}</Text>
          </TouchableOpacity>
        )}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

const divider = '#DDDDDD';

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  header: {
    fontSize: 20,
    textAlign: 'center',
    marginVertical: 16,
  },
  row: {
    paddingVertical: 16,
    paddingHorizontal: 24,
    borderBottomColor: divider,
    borderBottomWidth: 1,
  },
});

The details screen, found in ./screens/DetailsScreen.js, contains a header with the item number passed from the home screen:

// ./screens/DetailsScreen.js
import React from 'react';
import { Text, StyleSheet, View } from 'react-native';

export default function DetailsScreen(props) {
  const item = Number.parseInt(props.route.params, 10);

  return (
    <View>
      <Text style={styles.header}>Showing details for {item}</Text>
      <Text style={styles.body}>the number you have chosen is {item}</Text>
    </View>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  header: {
    fontSize: 20,
    textAlign: 'center',
    marginVertical: 16,
  },
  body: {
    textAlign: 'center',
  },
});

Setting up the test environment

Install required dev dependencies:

$ yarn add -D jest react-native-testing-library

Create your jest.config.js file (or place the following properties in your package.json as a "jest" property)

module.exports = {
  preset: 'react-native',
  setupFiles: ['./node_modules/react-native-gesture-handler/jestSetup.js'],
  transformIgnorePatterns: [
    'node_modules/(?!(jest-)?react-native|@react-native-community|@react-navigation)',
  ],
};

Notice the 2 entries that don't come with the default React Native project:

• setupFiles – an array of files that Jest is going to execute before running your tests. In this case, we run react-native-gesture-handler/jestSetup.js which sets up necessary mocks for react-native-gesture-handler native module
• transformIgnorePatterns – an array of paths that Jest ignores when transforming code. In this case, the negative lookahead regular expression is used, to tell Jest to transform (with Babel) every package inside node_modules/ that starts with react-native, @react-native-community or @react-navigation (added by us, the rest is in react-native preset by default, so you don't have to worry about it).

For this example, we are going to test out two things. The first thing is that the page is laid out as expected. The second, and most important, is that the page will transition to the detail screen when any item is tapped on.

Let's a AppNavigator.test.js file in src/__tests__ directory:

import React from 'react';
import { NavigationContainer } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { render, fireEvent, cleanup } from 'react-native-testing-library';

import AppNavigator from '../AppNavigator';

// Silence the warning https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/11094#issuecomment-263240420
jest.mock('react-native/Libraries/Animated/src/NativeAnimatedHelper');

describe('Testing react navigation', () => {
  test('page contains the header and 10 items', () => {
    const component = (
      <NavigationContainer>
        <AppNavigator />
      </NavigationContainer>
    );

    const { getByText, getAllByText } = render(component);

    const header = getByText('List of numbers from 1 to 20');
    const items = getAllByText(/Item number/);

    expect(header).toBeTruthy();
    expect(items.length).toBe(10);
  });

  test('clicking on one item takes you to the details screen', async () => {
    const component = (
      <NavigationContainer>
        <AppNavigator />
      </NavigationContainer>
    );

    const { getByText } = render(component);
    const toClick = getByText('Item number 5');

    fireEvent(toClick, 'press');
    const newHeader = getByText('Showing details for 5');
    const newBody = getByText('the number you have chosen is 5');

    expect(newHeader).toBeTruthy();
    expect(newBody).toBeTruthy();
  });
});

Running tests

To run the tests, place a test script inside your package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "test": "jest"
  }
}

And run the test script with npm test or yarn test.