Add FAQ about "update not wrapped in act" warnings #255
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This has comes up every so often in issues and Spectrum, so I've tried to summarize the cause & resolutions available.
kentcdodds approved these changes Sep 10, 2019
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| Learn more about how Jest mocks work from my blog post: | ||
| ["But really, what is a JavaScript mock?"](https://blog.kentcdodds.com/but-really-what-is-a-javascript-mock-10d060966f7d) | ||
| ["But really, what is a JavaScript mock?"](https://kentcdodds.com/blog/but-really-what-is-a-javascript-mock) |
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Just noticed this and couldn't help myself 🙃
| This warning is usually caused by an async operation causing an update after | ||
| the test has already finished. There are 2 approaches to resolve it: | ||
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| 1. Wait for the result of the operation in your test by using one of |
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Wanted to make sure people knew that any of the async utilities will solve this. And in many cases using a find* query makes a lot of sense, so I changed the example to that.
| @all-contributors please add @grncdr for docs |
| I've put up a pull request to add @grncdr! 🎉 |
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This has comes up every so often in issues and Spectrum, so I've tried to summarize the cause & resolutions available.