Testing a Redux action that dispatches 2 other functions with Jest? - redux

Question

I have a function (a Redux action) which calls 2 functions. I can't figure how how to test this with Jest:
This is my function:
import doSomething from 'redux/do-something';
import doSomethingElse from 'redux/do-something-else';
export default () => async dispatch => {
await dispatch(doSomething());
dispatch(doSomethingElse());
};
This is my test:
import doSomething from 'redux/do-something';
import doSomethingElse from 'redux/do-something-else';
import functionToTest from 'redux/function-to-test'
describe("functionToTest", ()=>{
jest.mock('redux/do-something');
jest.mock('redux/do-something-else');
const dispatch = jest.fn();
test('my test', ()=>{
functionToTest()(dispatch);
console.log(dispatch.mock.calls); // This returns an anonymous function
console.log(doSomething) // This returns undefined
})
})

Answer 1

It looks like you are wanting to mock the default export for do-something and do-something-else and test that they get dispatched by the code under test.
If that is the case then you can do it like this:
import functionToTest from 'redux/function-to-test'
jest.mock('redux/do-something', () =>
() => 'do something mock'
);
jest.mock('redux/do-something-else', () =>
() => 'do something else mock'
);
describe("functionToTest", () => {
test('my test', async () => { // <= async test function
const dispatch = jest.fn();
await functionToTest()(dispatch); // <= await the Promise
expect(dispatch.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe('do something mock'); // Success!
expect(dispatch.mock.calls[1][0]).toBe('do something else mock'); // Success!
});
});
Details
You can pass a module factory function as the second paramter to jest.mock and Jest will use the result of calling the function as what it gives back when the module is imported during the test.
jest.mock calls get hoisted by babel-jest and run before everything else in the code file. The hoisting doesn't work right when jest.mock is defined in a test function so the jest.mock calls should be moved to the top level scope of the test file.
The function under test is async so use an async test function and await the Promise to make sure it has completed before asserting.