When testing, code that causes React state updates should be wrapped into act

Question

I have this test:

import {
  render,
  cleanup,
  waitForElement
} from '@testing-library/react'

const TestApp = () => {
  const { loading, data, error } = useFetch<Person>('https://example.com', { onMount: true });

  return (
    <>
      {loading && <div data-testid="loading">loading...</div>}
      {error && <div data-testid="error">{error.message}</div>}
      {data && 
        <div>
          <div data-testid="person-name">{data.name}</div>
          <div data-testid="person-age">{data.age}</div>
        </div>
      }
    </>
  );
};

  describe("useFetch", () => {
    const renderComponent = () => render(<TestApp/>);

    it('should be initially loading', () => {
      const { getByTestId } = renderComponent();

      expect(getByTestId('loading')).toBeDefined();
    })
  });

The test passes but I get the following warning:

Warning: An update to TestApp inside a test was not wrapped in act(...).

When testing, code that causes React state updates should be wrapped into act(...):

act(() => {
  /* fire events that update state */
});
/* assert on the output */

This ensures that you're testing the behavior the user would see in the browser
    in TestApp

console.error node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:506 Warning: An update to TestApp inside a test was not wrapped in act(...).

When testing, code that causes React state updates should be wrapped into act(...):

act(() => {
  /* fire events that update state */
});
/* assert on the output */

This ensures that you're testing the behavior the user would see in the browser
    in TestApp

Answer 1

The key is to await act and then use async arrow function.

await act( async () => render(<TestApp/>));

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59839513/3850405

Answer 2

Try asserting inside 'await waitFor()' - for this your it() function should be async

it('should be initially loading', async () => {
  const { getByTestId } = renderComponent();

  await waitFor(() => {
    expect(getByTestId('loading')).toBeDefined();
  });
});

Keep calm and happy coding