Write documentation for react-test-renderer

[KnutHelland]

This is the first day I've used react-test-renderer, and I've already stumbled upon three problems:

• The injectEnvironment called twice bug injectEnvironment called twice: react-test-renderer and react-dom #7386
• The fact that refs is just null when rendered with react-test-renderer ReactTestRenderer doesn't work with refs or ReactDOM.findDOMNode #7371
• When setting a ref on a dom element, React erroneously warns about stateless function components cannot be given refs. (also probably related to ReactTestRenderer doesn't work with refs or ReactDOM.findDOMNode #7371)

react-test-renderer is going to be shipped with create-react-app very soon (?) (it's in [email protected]), so I think it deserves some more comprehensive documentation as soon as possible. With at least some troubleshooting bulletpoints and some text about how one are supposed to do with refs.

I sometimes use refs from componentDidMount. For example for setting focus on an input this.refs.input.focus(). But such code will fail with cannot call focus() on undefined. Should we always test if a ref isn't undefined before using them? Or do you have some plans for react-test-renderer in near future that will solve this issue in some way?

[LouisStAmour]

I'm hitting the injectEnvironment called twice bug with react-bootstrap and considering my options.

While we're talking react-test-render docs, it may be obvious, but you can't use react-test-renderer with React 0.14 code due to module dependencies, this is more of a Jest documentation bug. jestjs/jest#1364

[gaearon]

Please see my replies:

#7386 (comment)
#7371 (comment)

[LouisStAmour]

The inject bug is slightly more complicated than #7386 (comment), @gaearon -- I've turned off auto-mocking entirely, and it still happens. Here's some more detail on what's been done/suggested: jestjs/jest#1353 (comment)

[gaearon]

I've turned off auto-mocking entirely, and it still happens.

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’m saying the solution to this is to mock react-dom. This has no relation to automocking. You can turn automocking off (that’s what I’d recommend), but you still need to mock react-dom with an empty mock to get snapshot testing working with react-dom references.

[gaearon]

Let's track this in #8060.