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Re:Things I wish I knew about state management when I starte... by onesmalldrop on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:23PM (#22293532)
It's not debatable...

Unit tests are for testing individual components of your application (web or otherwise)

e2e or integration tests are for testing your application component/lib/api/whatever boundaries

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Re:Things I wish I knew about state management when I starte... by ellius on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:53PM (#22293803)
Sure, but what do you count as a "component"? It varies by language, framework, platform, and pattern.
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Re:Things I wish I knew about state management when I starte... by nohuhu on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:54PM (#22293809)
How do you test individual components in isolation if they depend on the global state store?
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Re:Things I wish I knew about state management when I starte... by root_axis on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:44PM (#22294631)
That's a code smell. 99% of components in a project should rely on props.
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Re:Things I wish I knew about state management when I starte... by nohuhu on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:22PM (#22295153)
How does that play with Redux Hooks for example? https://react-redux.js.org/next/api/hooks

If you are using hooks in your components, you need the global store instance. To call this unit testing is too big a stretch for me.

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