I find it simplest to use shallow rendering in my unit tests as opposed to rendering the DOM, so the output I have to verify only contains things the component-

I find it simplest to use shallow rendering in my unit tests as opposed to rendering the DOM, so the output I have to verify only contains things the component-under-test renders. As for shallow render, you can use either the default Test Utilities or Enzyme, I personally find Enzyme's shallow render implementation much easier to work with.