Why?

Currently, DOM-testing-library does not support checking shadow roots for elements. This can be troublesome when you're looking for something with a "button" that's nested inside a shadowRoot.

testing-library/dom-testing-library#413

Prior art

https://github.com/Westbrook/dom-testing-library

testing-library__dom is a hard fork of DOM testing library which presents its own set of challenges. shadow-dom-testing-library looks to augment the existing functionality.

Preinstallation

Make sure you are using a library which supports rendering shadow roots. For Jest users, this means ensuring you have JSDOM >= 16.2 and Jest >= 26.2

Installation

npm install -D shadow-dom-testing-library

Example usage

// my-button.jsx
export default () => (
  <sl-button>I get wrapped by a button in the shadowRoot!</sl-button>
);

// my-button.test.jsx
import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
import { screen } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
import Button from "./my-button";

test("Find the button in the shadow root", async () => {
  render(<Button />);
  const btn = await screen.findByShadowRole("button");
  expect(btn).toBeInTheDocument();
});

API

All queries found here: https://testing-library.com/docs/queries/about/#priority are implemented with a "Shadow" prefix prior to the query type.

API examples

import { render } from "@testing-library/react"
import { getByShadowRole, findByShadowLabelText, queryAllByShadowTitle } from "shadow-dom-testing-library"

test("Find the button", () => {
  const { container } = render(<Button />)

  getByShadowRole(container, "button")
  await findByShadowLabelText(container, /Car Manufacturer/i)
  queryAllByShadowTitle(container, "delete")
})

Usage with screen

Shadow dom testing library ships its own "screen" that you're familiar with. It has all the <ByShadow> functions prebound to the document.

import { render } from "@testing-library/react"
import { screen } from "shadow-dom-testing-library"

test("Lets test some rendering", () => {
  render(<Button />)
  screen.getByShadowRole("button")
  await screen.findByShadowLabelText(/Car Manufacturer/i)
  screen.queryAllByShadowTitle("delete")
})

In addition, every <ByShadow> function also accepts a "shallow" option. The shallow option means to only go 1 shadowRoot deep. Perhaps in the future a "recurseDepth" will be implemented to specify shadowRoot depth recursion.

import { render } from "@testing-library/react"
import { screen, getByShadowRole } from "shadow-dom-testing-library"

test("Lets test some rendering", () => {
  render(<Button />)
  getByShadowRole(document, "button", { shallow: true })
  await screen.findByShadowLabelText(/Car Manufacturer/i, { shallow: true })
  screen.queryAllByShadowTitle("delete", { shallow: true })
})

Additional APIs

Shadow DOM testing library also ships its own "deepQuerySelector" and "deepQuerySelectorAll" functions for if you need more fine-grained access to the DOM.

import {
  deepQuerySelector,
  deepQuerySelectorAll,
} from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

const elements = deepQuerySelectorAll(document, "my-button");
const element = deepQuerySelector(document, "my-button", { shallow: true });

A within function is exported to provide the <ByShadow> queries bound to a particular container element.

import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
import { screen, within } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

test("Lets test some rendering", () => {
  render(<ComplicatedControl />);
  const fieldGroup = screen.getByShadowRole("group");

  const nameInput = within(fieldGroup).getByShadowRole("textbox", {
    name: "foobar",
  });
});

Caution

Be careful with the shadowQueries and deepQueries. These functions recurse through every shadow root which can easily lead to unintended elements being found in your tests.

Also, this library is very new, use with caution. Feel free to report any issues.

Performance

Recursing through the Shadow DOM can be expensive if you render a large number of elements in an element. Benchmarks have not been measured, but it will easily be much worse than a regular querySelector call.

Additional notes

Shadow queries will work for both Light DOM and for Shadow DOM elements. For example you can search for a "button" in the Light DOM.

Example of light dom query

function SimpleButton() {
  const [count, setCount] = React.useState(0);

  return <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>{count}</button>;
}

import { screen } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

test("Regular buttons should also work with shadow query", async () => {
  render(<SimpleButton />);
  fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button"));
  const el = await screen.findByText(/1/);
  expect(el).toBeInTheDocument();
});

Debug

Shadow-dom-testing-library supports serializing shadow doms. To do so, it ships its own "debug" function attached to the screen.

Examples using Debug

import { screen, render } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
test("Debug", () => {
  render(<my-element />);

  screen.debug();
});

// Calling debug directly
import { debug, render } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
test("Debug", () => {
  render(<my-element />);

  debug();
});

// Changing indentation
import { screen, render } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
test("Debug", () => {
  render(<my-element />);

  debug(document.documentElement, undefined, { indent: 4 });
});

// Changing max depth
import { screen, render } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
test("Debug", () => {
  render(<my-element />);

  debug(document.documentElement, undefined, {
    // default is 7000.
    maxDepth: 100,
  });
});

logShadowDOM

This is the equivalent of logDOM from "@testing-library/dom"

logShadowDOM will log to the console the state of the DOM and internally calls prettyShadowDOM. This is called via screen.debug()

Example of logShadowDOM

import { logShadowDOM } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

logShadowDOM(element, maxLength, options); // void; calls console.log()

prettyShadowDOM

This is the equivalent of prettyDOM from "@testing-library/dom". This is called by logShadowDOM. prettyShadowDOM returns string | false and does not automatically log to the console. This is useful for custom error messages for elements.

Example of prettyShadowDOM

import { prettyShadowDOM } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

prettyShadowDOM(element, maxLength, options); // => string | false

ShadowQueries

Perhaps you don't want the extended screen. That's fine. To import just the shadowQueries you can do so like this:

import { shadowQueries } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

test("findByShadowRole", async () => {
  render(<Button />);
  const btn = await shadowQueries.findByShadowRole("button");
  expect(btn).toBeInTheDocument();
});

You could also use this method to extend your own screen.

import { shadowQueries } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";
import { screen as DOMScreen } from "@testing-library/dom";

const screen = {
  ...DOMScreen,
  ...shadowQueries,
};

screen.getByShadowRole("button");

Usage with TypeScript

import { screen, shadowQueries } from "shadow-dom-testing-library";

const btn = await screen.findByShadowRole<HTMLButtonElement>("button");
const btn = shadowQueries.getByShadowRole<HTMLButtonElement>("button");