I am new to react-testing-library / jest and attempting to write a test to see if the navigation of routes (using react-router-dom) is performed correctly. So far I have been following the README and this tutorial on how to use.
One of my components uses scrollIntoView in a local function and this causes the test to fail.
TypeError: this.messagesEnd.scrollIntoView is not a function
45 |
46 | scrollToBottom = () => {
> 47 | this.messagesEnd.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" });
| ^
48 | }
49 |
50 |
This is the function in my chatbot component:
componentDidUpdate() {
this.scrollToBottom();
}
scrollToBottom = () => {
this.messagesEnd.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" });
}
And this is a sample of the tests that fail:
test('<App> default screen', () => {
const { getByTestId, getByText } = renderWithRouter(<App />)
expect(getByTestId('index'))
const leftClick = {button: 0}
fireEvent.click(getByText('View Chatbot'), leftClick) <-- test fails
expect(getByTestId('chatbot'))
})
I have tried to use a mock function, however the error still remains.
This is where this.messageEnd is assigned:
<div className="chatbot">
<div className="chatbot-messages">
//render messages here
</div>
<div className="chatbot-actions" ref={(el) => { this.messagesEnd = el; }}>
//inputs for message actions here
</div>
</div>
I referenced code from this stack overflow question: How to scroll to bottom in react?
SOLUTION
test('<App> default screen', () => {
window.HTMLElement.prototype.scrollIntoView = function() {};
const { getByTestId, getByText } = renderWithRouter(<App />)
expect(getByTestId('index'))
const leftClick = {button: 0}
fireEvent.click(getByText('View Chatbot'), leftClick)
expect(getByTestId('chatbot'))
})