How To Unit Test Angular Components With Fake NgRx TestStore
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What are we going to learn?
- How to implement NgRx TestStore
- When to use NgRx TestStore
- How to set up TestStore in your tests
- How to test UI of a component
- How to test dispatched actions of a component
But first a little bit of …
Context
Maybe you are aware of Angular NgRx Material Starter project. It’s a community effort to provide up to date seed that focuses on implementing all known best practices.
One of the last missing pieces of the puzzle was a good test coverage that could demonstrate best practices in testing of different types of entities that are needed in every Angular project including services, view components, container components, reducers, …
Instead of adding tests myself, I have chosen a different strategy. I have created a set of issues that describe what kind of tests would be nice to have in a project.
