Jest Enzyme test a React component that returns nu

Question

I have a component that returns null in render under certain conditions:

render() {
  if (this.props.isHidden) {
      return null;
  }

  return <div>test</div>;
}

I want to check if the component is null when isHidden is true with jest and enzyme:

describe('myComp', () => {
    it('should not render if isHidden is true', () => {
        const comp = shallow(<myComp isHidden={true} />);
        expect(comp.children().length).toBe(0);
    });
});

This works but is there a more idiomatic way to write this test ? Testing for components that render as null is quite a common scenario.

Answer 1

   expect(comp.type()).toEqual(null)

That's it!

or: expect(comp.get(0)).toBeFalsy()

Answer 2

According to ShallowWrapper::html implementation it returns null if component instance type is null, as a result of render.

expect(comp.html()).toBeNull();

Answer 3

ShallowWrapper has a isEmptyRender() function:

expect(comp.isEmptyRender()).toBe(true)

Answer 4

we use the following with jest-enzyme

expect(comp).toBeEmptyRender()