enzo

Small testing library for marko that allows you to test components using any testing framework.

Installation

npm install --dev enzo

// or if you use yarn
yarn add --dev enzo

Usage

This module exposes two methods for rendering components: render and mount.

render(componentPath: string [, input: object])

The render function will perform a simple static render of the component. The first argument is the path to the component template and the second argument (optional) argument is the input for rendering the component.

ex.

const { render } = require('enzo')
const componentPath = require.resolve('./src/components/button.marko')

const input = { text: 'some-text' }
const markup = render(componentPath, input)

console.log(markup) // prints out the component markup

mount(componentPath: string, [, input: object])

The mount function will render the component within a jsdom instance. The input arguments are the same as the arguments for render.

Note: this is an async function.

This will resolve with an object containing:

• dom - the jsdom instance
• window - the jsdom instance's window
• document - the jsdom instance's document
• component - the rendered component instance
• clean - a helper function for destroying the jsdom instance.

Note: Calling component.destroy() will automatically trigger the clean function and perform cleanup.

const { mount } = require('enzo')
const componentPath = require.resolve('./src/components/button.marko')

const input = { text: 'some-text' }
const { component } = await mount(componentPath, input)

component.handleClick()

Why enzo?

I wanted a tool that was similar to what enzyme provides for react. However, I didn't want everything that enzyme provided. Perhaps in the future, even more opinionated developers can build wrappers around enzo to give it more functionality.

I also wanted a tool that allowed developers a little more flexibility when testing marko components. At the moment, the preferred way of performing component tests is with marko-cli, which is a fantastic tool, but locks users into using the mocha testing framework and lasso. enzo is simply an alternative choice.

Fun fact: The name enzo comes from squishing the names enzyme and marko together. No, I didn't name it after the Ferrari.

How enzo works

enzo provides a few helper methods for testing your marko components.

The render function is essentially a slightly more concise way of loading the component and calling renderToString. It provides little value over what is already available, but can save you a few keystrokes. The output string alone can be pretty useless by itself, but when paired with other tools as cheerio you can make more powerful assertions.

The mount function does quite a bit more work. It takes your marko component and bundles all of the necessary modules together to run it in a browser environment using webpack. The resulting bundle is then passed to a jsdom instance and rendered. Each call to mount returns a new component that has been sandboxed in it's own jsdom instance, so you won't have to worry about messy conflicts when running tests in parallel. This also means that the jsdom document object is not stuffed into the Node globals (see this wiki page).

Why webpack and not <insert bundler here>?

Some sort of bundler was needed to pull dependencies together, and I wasn't going to write that logic myself. I went with webpack, which is arguably one of the most flexible and well supported bundlers out there. Although this makes enzo way more appealing to webpack users, most users should still be able to write effective unit tests for their components regardless of the bundler they use as long as the more complex bundler specific features are not used. Testing with the bundler you use in production is still better though, and not being able to use bundler specific features is a limitation that I am not happy with. Perhaps this module can be extended to allow for custom bundlers to be used in the future (PRs welcome!).

Example usage

I created a small example project that shows how components can be tested using enzo, cheerio, and ava. It's relatively small in scope, but enough to show off how tests can be written with enzo.

Todo

• ~~Allow for custom rules to be added to the webpack config.~~ Allow for custom bundlers to be used.