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Discussion on: What do you think of React Testing Library?

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bdbch

Happy to see you over here at dev.to! :) To be honest I'm still very unexperienced with testing. Should I do it with a test project first to get into it?

(Also a cool feature for dev.to would be to mark specific posts as discussions, I'd like to use dev.to as my blog on my website).

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André Costa Lima • Edited

I believe the #discuss tag is normally used for that. 😉

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bdbch

Can you exclude this tag when you want to fetch it via the articles endpoint?

I'd like to integrate dev.to into my website instead of medium but wouldn't like to see my discussion posts in there. :)

Sure could filter out on my side, but that would break the pagination.

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André Costa Lima

Not sure. I haven't used the API yet. Maybe the docs can provide you a hint. 👌

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Ken Bellows • Edited

@bdbch if you're just trying to page through your own articles, you can probably just pull in the whole dang list and do whatever sorting and paging you want on the client. You'd have to write a ton of articles for that to be a problem. Different story if you're pulling more that just your own, but in that case you'll probably have a more specific query anyway

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bdbch

Thats true, guess thats the best way to go from here on! :)

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Kent C. Dodds

Should I do it with a test project first to get into it?

You could do that if you like. I think you'll find that it's pretty easy to get up and going though. You can even try it in the very same file that you're using enzyme in as well! So migrating is a pretty simple process.

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Ken Bellows • Edited

The #discuss tag is just for that!

#discuss

What color should the bike shed be?
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bdbch

Yep, see here:
dev.to/bdbch/comment/d8mn

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Jacob Evans

I agree add #discuss :)

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Kent C. Dodds

Done! Thanks folks!

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Ben Halpern

We have some long overdue design improvements on the editor to help people select the right tags, so it's great to see this meta discussion help folks out.

Kent, between this and your other couple posts I think you're making really great use of the format of the site and look forward to more of this community-enabling content; using your de facto leadership role in JS/React to spark a lot of great discussions that have a bit more lasting value than a Twitter thread.

👏👏👏

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Jacob Evans

Ben...what do you think about react testing library lmao