Testing custom hook: Invariant Violation: could not find react-redux context value; please ensure the component is wrapped in a <Provider>

Question

I got a custom hook which I want to test. It receives a redux store dispatch function and returns a function. In order to get the result I'm trying to do:

const { result } = renderHook(() => { useSaveAuthenticationDataToStorages(useDispatch())});

However, I get an error:

Invariant Violation: could not find react-redux context value; please ensure the component is wrapped in a

It happens because of the useDispatch and that there is no store connected. However, I don't have any component here to wrap with a provider.. I just need to test the hook which is simply saving data to a store.

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

The react hooks testing library docs go more into depth on this. However, what we essentially are missing is the provider which we can obtain by creating a wrapper. First we declare a component which will be our provider:

import { Provider } from 'react-redux'

const ReduxProvider = ({ children, reduxStore }) => (
  <Provider store={reduxStore}>{children}</Provider>
)

then in our test we call

test("...", () => {
  const store = configureStore();
  const wrapper = ({ children }) => (
    <ReduxProvider reduxStore={store}>{children}</ReduxProvider>
  );
  const { result } = renderHook(() => {
    useSaveAuthenticationDataToStorages(useDispatch());
  }, { wrapper });
  // ... Rest of the logic
});