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Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling

React NativeLesson 25

What you'll walk away with

  • Explain the React and native-platform behavior of Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling
  • Test accessibility, failure, and lifecycle cases
  • Write maintainable, testable, and performant React Native

Evaluate Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling on release devices through startup, JS/UI frame rate, memory, networking, crash recovery, permissions, signing, and store requirements—not only a debug build. Recheck New Architecture and dependency compatibility on every upgrade.

Build a Complete Mental Model

Evaluate Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling on release devices through startup, JS/UI frame rate, memory, networking, crash recovery, permissions, signing, and store requirements—not only a debug build. Recheck New Architecture and dependency compatibility on every upgrade.

Apply It in Production React Native

Test an original Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling example on Android and iOS with small and large screens, font scaling, dark mode, keyboard and screen reader use, slow/offline networking, denied permissions, and background/foreground transitions. Use DevTools, tests, and a release build where relevant.

After This Lesson

tsx
import { render, screen, userEvent } from '@testing-library/react-native';
import { SaveButton } from './SaveButton';

test('saves through an accessible button', async () => {
  const onSave = jest.fn();
  const user = userEvent.setup();
  render(<SaveButton onSave={onSave} />);
  await user.press(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save' }));
  expect(onSave).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
});
You should see
1 test passed

Try It Yourself

Test an original Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling example on Android and iOS with small and large screens, font scaling, dark mode, keyboard and screen reader use, slow/offline networking, denied permissions, and background/foreground transitions. Use DevTools, tests, and a release build where relevant.

Platform and Lifecycle Warning

Assuming one simulator's happy path proves every real-device, release-build, permission, accessibility, offline, and lifecycle path.

Testing OverviewReact Native

Easy traps

  • Assuming one simulator's happy path proves every real-device, release-build, permission, accessibility, offline, and lifecycle path.
  • Applying web CSS or DOM assumptions directly, leaking subscriptions, or mixing every platform difference into one component.

Hands-on Exercise

Test an original Testing, React Native DevTools & Profiling example on Android and iOS with small and large screens, font scaling, dark mode, keyboard and screen reader use, slow/offline networking, denied permissions, and background/foreground transitions. Use DevTools, tests, and a release build where relevant.

You'll know it worked when: 1 test passed