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Creating an override is basically just providing a placeholder for a value to be injected via React Context. I view this as a form of dependency injection. Cont
by kolodny 3y ago
Creating an override is basically just providing a placeholder for a value to be injected via React Context. I view this as a form of dependency injection. Contrast this with how this would be done in vanilla Playwright with reading it from a query param or exposing a global to call page.evaluate on which is more along the lines of forcing test code into a component.
Note that if you needed a specific reference in an override there isn't a good way to get that via Playwright, consider this silly example:
it('can test spies', async () => {
const spy = browserMock.fn();
const { page } = await render(
app =>
<LogoutButtonAction.Override with={() => spy}>
{app}
<LogoutButtonAction.Override>
);
await page.getByText('Log out').click();
expect(await spy).toHaveBeenCalled();
});
- throwaway290 3y agoShould it be general framework focused on DI for React? That can make overrides more organic and have more benefits than just testing