Use this module with Jest to run web tests that rely on localstorage where you want a working localStorage like API and mocked localStorage functions.

This module has no runtime dependencies so your project won't pull in additional module dependencies by using this.

Install

This should only be required as a dev dependency when your tests are running.

yarn:

1yarn add --dev jest-localstorage-mock

npm:

1npm i --save-dev jest-localstorage-mock

Setup

Module

In your package.json under the jest section add the module name to the setupFiles array. This is by far the simplest method for using this.

1"jest": {
2  "setupFiles": [
3    "jest-localstorage-mock"
4  ]
5}

You can also append this to the array if you have other setup files.

1"jest": {
2  "setupFiles": [
3    "./__setups__/other.js",
4    "jest-localstorage-mock"
5  ]
6}

Setup file

Alternatively you can create a new setup file which then requires this module or add the require statement to an existing setup file.

__setups__/localstorage.js

1require('jest-localstorage-mock');

Add that file to your setupFiles array:

1"jest": {
2  "setupFiles": [
3    "./__setups__/localstorage.js"
4  ]
5}

In create-react-app

For a create-react-app project you can replace the suggested mock with this at the beginning of the existing src/setupTests.js file:

1require("jest-localstorage-mock");

In tests

By including this in your Jest setup you'll allow tests that expect a localStorage object to continue to run. The module can also allow you to use the mocks provided to check that your localStorage is being used as expected.

The __STORE__ attribute of localStorage.__STORE__ is made available for you to directly access the localStorage object if needed.

Test Examples

Check that your localStorage calls were made when they were supposed to.

1test('should save to localStorage', () => {
2  const KEY = 'foo', VALUE = 'bar';
3  dispatch(action.update(KEY, VALUE));
4  expect(localStorage.setItem).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(KEY, VALUE);
5  expect(localStorage.__STORE__[KEY]).toBe(VALUE);
6  expect(Object.keys(localStorage.__STORE__).length).toBe(1);
7});

Check that your storage is empty.

1test('should have cleared the localStorage', () => {
2  dispatch(action.reset());
3  expect(localStorage.clear).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
4  expect(localStorage.__STORE__).toEqual({}); // check store values
5  expect(localStorage.length).toBe(0); // or check length
6});

Check that localStorage calls were not made when they shouldn't have been.

1test('should not have saved to localStorage', () => {
2  const KEY = 'foo', VALUE = 'bar';
3  dispatch(action.notIdempotent(KEY, VALUE));
4  expect(localStorage.setItem).not.toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(KEY, VALUE);
5  expect(Object.keys(localStorage.__STORE__).length).toBe(0);
6});

Development

yarn install
yarn test

Pull Request

Before every PR run the following:

yarn run prettier

Publish

When publishing a new build, run the following:

yarn run prettier
yarn run build
npm version `${version}`
npm publish
git push --tags