Is there a way to debug how callbacks are called, when firing an event with testing-library?[SOLVED]

[loud forge]

Hey,

I am having a hard time testing my code and would like to find out if and how some of my event handlers are actually being called, when I run fireEvent.click() on a button.

Some background: I am running solid inside a Tauri-Application which works very well.

However my issue is, that on the click of a button nothing observable seems to happen (it works perfectly fine in the real running application).

Basically what I am trying to do, is to setup some stores, render my app, find a button that should start a timer, advance these timers by using vitests fake timers and afterwards inspect, that a stop button is being rendered and the time has been adjusted accordingly.

My current (simplified without timers) test looks like this:

    it('should run on toggle start', async () => {
        // Arrange
        render(() => <App />, { location: '/' })
        const TEST_ID = 'TEST_ENTRY'
        setTimeEntries(TEST_ID, {
            id: TEST_ID,
            savedTimeInMs: 0,
            date: '2023-07-02T00:00:00.000Z',
            description: 'This is a test entry',
            isBillable: true,
            isFavorite: false,
        })
        setRunningTimer({
            timeEntryId: TEST_ID,
            savedTimeInMs: 0,
            isRunning: false,
        })
        setIsHydrating(false)

        // Act
        const currentTimerStartButton = await screen.findByRole('button', { name: 'start-current-timer' })

        mockIPC(() => {
            fireEvent.click(currentTimerStartButton)
        })

        // Assert
        expect(await screen.findByRole('button', { name: 'stop-current-timer' })).toBeInTheDocument()
        expect(await screen.findByTestId('running-timer-time')).toHaveTextContent('00:00:03')
    })

(continuation in thread)

The relevant part of my component (also simplified):

function CurrentTimer() {
    const handleStart = () => {
        setRunningTimer('isRunning', true)
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <Show
                when={runningTimeEntrySelectors.isRunning()}
                fallback={
                    <button
                        type="button"
                        aria-label="start-current-timer"
                        onClick={handleStart}
                        disabled={!runningTimeEntrySelectors.currentEntry}
                        class="group"
                    >
                        <FaSolidCirclePlay
                           />
                    </button>
                }
            >
                <button type="button" onClick={() => pauseTimeEntry()} class="group" aria-label="stop-current-timer">
                    <FaSolidCirclePause
                       
                    />
                </button>
            </Show>

timeEntries and runningTimer are both stores which reside inside their own files.
runningTimeEntrySelectors basically look like this (simplified):

export const runningTimeEntrySelectors = createRoot(() => {
    const isRunning = () => runningTimer.isRunning
    return {
        isRunning,
        ...
    }
}

What I noticed is, that the fireEvent call does not seem to lead to the runningTimer-store to be updated at all.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong here? Thanks in advance

[loud forge]

Ok, I think I made at least some progress:
My call to mockIPC from Tauri was probably wrong. I should not wrap the click handler with that. Instead I needed to mock the actual backend commands (which makes sense).

Now I am also able to log from the click handler. Which answers my initial question.

The only issue I am still having is related to advancing fake timers - however before I open a new issue for that, I'll have a look at this with a fresh mind tomorrow 😄

Is there a way to debug how callbacks are called, when firing an event with testing-library?[SOLVED]

[nimble lagoon]

Fake timers are related to vitest, not to testing-library. However, I will try to support you to the best of my abilities.

[loud forge]

Thanks a ton @nimble lagoon your effort is really appreciated. (Actually its amazing to see how much help you provide over here in the discord and how fast you usually respond! ❤️ )