Snapshot Testing

Adding snapshot tests with Jest is a great way to help avoid unintended changes to your app’s UI.

By diffing the serialized value of your React tree Jest can show you what changed in your app and allow you to fix it or update the snapshot.

By default snapshots with emotion show generated class names. Adding @emotion/jest allows you to output the actual styles being applied.

Installation

npm install --save-dev @emotion/jest

Add the "@emotion/jest/serializer" to the snapshotSerializers option.

{
  "snapshotSerializers": ["@emotion/jest/serializer"]
}

Or use expect.addSnapshotSerializer to add it.

import { createSerializer } from '@emotion/jest'

expect.addSnapshotSerializer(createSerializer())

When using Enzyme, you can add "@emotion/jest/enzyme-serializer" instead.

{
  "snapshotSerializers": ["@emotion/jest/enzyme-serializer"]
}

Or use expect.addSnapshotSerializer to add it like this:

import { createEnzymeSerializer } from '@emotion/jest/enzyme-serializer' // also adds the enzyme-to-json serializer

expect.addSnapshotSerializer(createEnzymeSerializer())

Writing a test

Writing a test with @emotion/jest involves creating a snapshot from the react-test-renderer or enzyme-to-json’s resulting JSON.

import React from 'react'
/** @jsx jsx */
import { jsx } from '@emotion/react'
import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'


const Button = props => (
  <button
    css={{
      color: 'hotpink'
    }}
    {...props}
  />
)

test('Button renders correctly', () => {
  expect(
    renderer
      .create(<Button>This is hotpink.</Button>)
      .toJSON()
  ).toMatchSnapshot()
})

It’ll create a snapshot that looks like this.

// Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP

exports[`Button renders correctly 1`] = `
.emotion-0 {
  color: hotpink;
}

<div
  className="emotion-0"
>
  This is hotpink.
</div>
`

When the styles of a component change, the snapshot will fail and you’ll be able to update the snapshot or fix the component.