Enzyme: Method “text” is only meant to be run on a single node. 0 found instead

Question

I'm using React v15.4, babel-jest v18 and enzyme v2.5.1

I have a simple React Component:

import React, {Component} from 'react'
import {FormattedRelative} from 'react-intl'
import pageWithIntl from '../components/PageWithIntl'
import Layout from '../components/Layout'

class About extends Component {
  static async getInitialProps ({req}) {
    return {someDate: Date.now()}
  }

  render () {
    return (
      <Layout>
        <h1>About</h1>
        <p>
          <FormattedRelative
            value={this.props.someDate}
            updateInterval={1000}
          />
        </p>
      </Layout>
    )
  }
}

export default pageWithIntl(About)

And a simple Jest/Enzyme Test:

/* global it, expect, describe */

import React from 'react'
import { shallow } from 'enzyme'
import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'
import About from '../pages/about.js'

describe('With Enzyme', () => {
  it('App shows "About"', () => {
    const about = shallow(
      <About />
    )
    expect(about.find('h1').text()).toEqual('About')
  })
})

The Jest test should pass but I'm getting an error:

Method “text” is only meant to be run on a single node. 0 found instead.

What am I missing?

=== Update

The snapshot test passes:

describe('With Snapshot Testing', () => {
  it('About shows "About"', () => {
    const component = renderer.create(<About />)
    const tree = component.toJSON()
    expect(tree).toMatchSnapshot()
  })
})

Is there a way to integrate the enzyme expect test inside the snapshot test? And how?

Answer 1

Its caused by the fact that shallow does not render child componnets and your component been wrapped by a function. So shallow only returns a representation of the function not of the component. You can use dive() to reach the real component

/* global it, expect, describe */

import React from 'react'
import { shallow } from 'enzyme'
import renderer from 'react-test-renderer'
import About from '../pages/about.js'

describe('With Enzyme', () => {
  it('App shows "About"', () => {
    const about = shallow(
      <About />
    ).dive()
    expect(about.find('h1').text()).toEqual('About')
  })
})