redux-saga-testable

Make redux-saga more easily testable.

Overview

redux-saga-testable is a unit test library for redux-saga that runs your sagas without the need to iterate on the generators yourself, allowing you to map some effects to values and providing the built-in assertions you need.

Contents

• Motivation
• Getting started
• Contribute
• License

Documentation

• Tutorial
• API

Motivation

It's about redux-saga and unit tests.

When you write unit tests of sagas, you have to manually iterate on the generator and pass your next value for each yielded effect. The number of iterations you have to next() depends on the number of yield in the saga.

If a yield statement is added, removed or just swapped with another, there is a good chance that you pass your next value to an unexpected effect. This causes tests boring to write, not easy to understand and too prone to breaking.

Ideally, you should not have to worry about what the saga does behind. You would just like to map some effects to some values and assert that some arbitrary effects happened, in a clear and concise way.

If that speaks to you, go to Getting started.

Getting started

Install

Get it with npm:

npm i -D redux-saga-testable

or yarn:

yarn add -D redux-saga-testable

Usage

Considering the following saga:

function* fetchUserWorker(action: FetchUserAction) {
  const { userId } = action.payload;

  yield put({ type: 'FETCH_USER_REQUEST' });

  let user = yield select(selectors.getCurrentUser);
  if (user !== undefined) return;

  user = yield call(services.getUserById, userId);
  yield put({ type: 'FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', payload: user });
}

This saga fetches a user and dispatches FETCH_USER_SUCCESS. Note that if the user already exists, it does nothing instead of calling services.getUserById().

You would like to assert that this saga dispatches the action FETCH_USER_SUCCESS when the call to services.getUserById() returns a user:

import { createRunner } from 'redux-saga-testable';

test('fetchUserWorker() should dispatch FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', () => {
  const userId = 123;
  const user = { user: 'name' };

  createRunner(fetchUserWorker, { type: 'FETCH_USER', payload: { userId } })
    .map(call(services.getUserById, userId), user)
    .should.put({ type: 'FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', payload: user });
});

Let's see what happens step by step:

• import { createRunner } from 'redux-saga-testable';
  

  Imports the saga runner creator function.

• createRunner(fetchUserWorker, { type: 'FETCH_USER', payload: { userId } })
  

  Creates a saga runner instance from the saga fetchUserWorker and its action.

• .map(call(services.getUserById, userId), user)
  

  Maps the effect call(services.getUserById, id) to the value user.

• .should.put({ type: 'FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', payload: user });
  

  Asserts that the saga yields the effect put({ type: 'FETCH_USER_SUCCESS', payload: user }).

The test will pass if the runner can make the given assertions. Otherwise an error will be thrown and the test will fail.

See the Tutorial for more advanced examples or see the API documentation.

Contribute

Pull requests are welcome.

To make one, fork this repository, clone it to your local and run npm install. Do your changes. Once you are done, commit and push to your forked repository and make your pull request.

See current issues but feel free to bring what you need.

License

MIT