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react-testing-library why is toBeInTheDocument() not a function

Here is my code for a tooltip that toggles the CSS property display: block on MouseOver and on Mouse Out display: none.

 it('should show and hide the message using onMouseOver and onMouseOut events respectively', () => {
    const { queryByTestId, queryByText } = render(
      <Tooltip id="test" message="test" />,
    )
    fireEvent.mouseOver(queryByTestId('tooltip'))
    expect(queryByText('test')).toBeInTheDocument()
    fireEvent.mouseOut(queryByTestId('tooltip'))
    expect(queryByText('test')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
    cleanup()
  })

I keep getting the error TypeError: expect(...).toBeInTheDocument is not a function

Has anyone got any ideas why this is happening? My other tests to render and snapshot the component all work as expected. As do the queryByText and queryByTestId.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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toBeInTheDocument is not part of RTL. You need to install jest-dom to enable it.

And then import it in your test files by: import '@testing-library/jest-dom'

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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As mentioned by Giorgio, you need to install jest-dom. Here is what worked for me:

(I was using typescript)

npm i --save-dev @testing-library/jest-dom

Then add an import to your setupTests.ts

import '@testing-library/jest-dom/extend-expect';

Then in your jest.config.js you can load it via:

"setupFilesAfterEnv": [
    "<rootDir>/src/setupTests.ts"
  ]

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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When you do npm i @testing-library/react make sure there is a setupTests.js file with the following statement in it

import '@testing-library/jest-dom/extend-expect';

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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