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Selenium Testing with Shadow DOM
As the web component specs continue to be developed, there has been little information on how to test them.
In particular the /deep/ combinator has been deprecated in Shadow DOM 1.0. This is particularly painful since
most end-to-end testing frameworks rely on elements being discoverable by XPath or calls to querySelector.
Elements in Shadow DOM are selectable by neither.
Webdriver.io has the standard actions by selectors, but also allows browser executable scripts to return an element
Hi Nicholas,
I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:
The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't