React Testing with Vitest
Comprehensive React testing patterns using Vitest and React Testing Library. Covers component testing, hooks, async operations, mocking, and accessibility testing.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
React Testing: Use Vitest + @testing-library/react. Query by role/label (getByRole, getByLabelText) not test IDs. userEvent over fireEvent. Test behavior not implementation. Mock at boundaries (fetch, modules). screen.getByRole('button', { name: /submit/i }).
Use When
- Testing React components
- Testing custom hooks
- Testing user interactions
- Testing async operations
Skip When
- E2E testing (use Playwright)
- API testing (use supertest/httpx)
- Visual regression testing
React Testing with Vitest
Comprehensive React testing patterns using Vitest and React Testing Library. Covers component testing, hooks, async operations, mocking, and accessibility testing.