Jay

Posted on Oct 7, 2020

Vite Plugin for Vue 3 testing

#vue #javascript #testing #plugin

Why need test?

Get an error if we break code
Save time (don't need to test manually)
- It speeds up development because you don’t have to test everything manually after every change.
Integrate into build workflow
Improve your code

Vite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

Vue-Test-Utils is a utilities for testing Vue components

Getting Started
Adding Test
Create a Vite Plugin

Getting Started

Lets create a folder mkdir vue-testing
cd vue-testing then npm init -y
Install dependencies

 npm install vue@3.0.0
 npm install vite @vue/test-utils@^2.0.0-beta.5 --save-dev

Create ./src/App.vue

 <template>
   <h1>
     Hello world!
   </h1>
 </template>

 <script>
 export default { 
  name: 'App'
 }
 </script>

Create ./src/main.js root director

import {createApp} from 'vue'
import App from './App.vue'

createApp(App).mount('#app')

Add index.html

 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
 </head>
   <body>
     <div id="app"></div>
     <script type="module" src="./src/main.js"></script>
   </body>
 </html>

Update or Add scripts to your package.json file

  "scripts": {
    "serve": "vite",
    ....
  }

Now we can run our application to make sure everything is working.

npm run serve

Adding Test to your application

Lets create a folder mkdir test
cd test
Create ./test/App.spec.js

import { mount } from '@vue/test-utils'
import App from '../src/App.vue'

 describe('App.spec.js', () => {
  it('renders', () => {
    const wrapper = mount(App, { attachTo: '#root' })
    expect(wrapper.html()).to.contain('Hello')
  })
 })

Create ./test/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Vue Testing</title>
  <link href="https://unpkg.com/mocha@4.0.1/mocha.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/chai@4.1.2/chai.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/mocha@4.0.1/mocha.js"></script>
  <style>
    #meta > * {
      margin: 20px 50px 0 50px;
      font-weight: 200;
      font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }

    #meta > h1 { font-size: 2em; }
    #meta > h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }

    #root {
      margin: 20px 50px 0 50px;
    }
  </style>
  <script>
    mocha.setup('bdd')
    window.expect = chai.expect
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="meta">
    <h2>Mocha HTML Reporter</h2>
    <div>
      <div id="mocha" style="margin: 0;"></div>
    </div>
  </div>

</body>
</html>

Add setup

  beforeEach(() => {
    delete window["__VUE_DEVTOOLS_TOAST__"]

    const existingRoot = document.getElementById('root')
    if (existingRoot) {
      existingRoot.innerHTML = ''
      return
    }
    const root = document.createElement('div')
    root.id = 'root'
    document.body.appendChild(root)
  })

  afterEach(() => {
    document.getElementById('root').remove()
  })

Load all spec or test files

import('./test/App.spec.js').then(() => {
  mocha.setup({ reporter: 'html' })
  mocha.checkLeaks()
  mocha.run()
})

Run the test

npm run serve

Go to http://localhost:3000/test
Open the browser console, you will have expected error, vite can only process es module, and @babel/parser is commonjs module
Vite under the hood uses rollup to build Single File Component SFC, so lets use rollup to convert @babel/parser to es module
Create a file ./tools/babel-parser.js

export { parse } from '@babel/parser'

Create rollup.config.js

import resolve from '@rollup/plugin-node-resolve'
import commonjs from '@rollup/plugin-commonjs'

export default {
  input: './tools/babel-parser.js',
  plugins: [  commonjs(), resolve() ],
  output: {
    file: './node_modules/@babel/parser/index.js',
    format: 'es',
    sourcemap: true
  }
}

Also create vite.config.js to create alias for @babel/parser and to use it later

export default {
  alias: {
    '@babel/parser': '@babel/parser/index.js'
  }
}

Add npm script to run the rollup

 "scripts": {
    ...
    "optimize": "rollup -c"
  },

Run npm run optimize and npm run serve

Create a Vite Plugin

Create file ./tools/testPlugin.js

import Router from 'koa-router'
import fs from 'aria-fs'

function getTestFiles() {
  const router = new Router()

  return ({ app }) => {

    router.get('/test-files', async (ctx, next) => {
      ctx.body = await fs.globFiles(`./test/**/*.spec.js`, true)
      await next()
    })

    app.use(router.routes())
  }
}

export default function testPlugin() {
  return {
    configureServer: [ getTestFiles() ]
  }
}

Install dependencies

npm install koa-router aria-fs --save-dev

Update vite.config.js

import testPlugin from './tools/testPlugin'

export default {
  alias: {
    '@babel/parser': '@babel/parser/index.js'
  },
  plugins: [ testPlugin() ]
}

Update script in ./test/index.html

(async function() {

  beforeEach(() => {
    delete window["__VUE_DEVTOOLS_TOAST__"]

    const existingRoot = document.getElementById('root')
    if (existingRoot) {
      existingRoot.innerHTML = ''
      return
    }
    const root = document.createElement('div')
    root.id = 'root'
    document.body.appendChild(root)
  })

  afterEach(() => {
    document.getElementById('root').remove()
  })

  const response = await fetch('/test-files')
  const files = await response.json()

  await Promise.all(files.map(file => import(file)))

  mocha.setup({ reporter: 'html' })
  mocha.checkLeaks()
  mocha.run()
})()

Let's add another test Button increment, file ./src/Button.vue

<template>
  <div>
    <p>Times clicked: {{ count }}</p>
    <button @click="increment">increment</button>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  export default {
    name: 'Button',
    data: () => ({
      count: 0,
    }),
    methods: {
      increment() {
        this.count++
      },
    },
  }
</script>

And test for our Button, ./tools/Button.spec.js

import { mount } from '@vue/test-utils'
import Button from '../src/Button.vue'

 describe('Button.spec.js', () => {
  it('increments value on click', async () => {
    const wrapper = mount(Button, { attachTo: '#root' })
    const button = wrapper.find('button')

    await button.trigger('click')
    expect(wrapper.find('p').html()).to.contain('Times clicked: 1')
  })
 })

Run npm run serve and go to http://localhost:3000/test

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Vite Plugin for Vue 3 testing

Why need test?

Table Of Contents

Getting Started

Adding Test to your application

Create a Vite Plugin

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