react-test-renderer: is possible to test lifecycle functions?

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Question

What is the current behavior?

I am trying to use react-test-renderer and I notice that the lifecycles methods (ex: componentDidMount) need to be fired manually - rendered.getInstance().componentDidMount(), what solves my problem but reveals an other: I want to use shallow render, to test only the component under test, but then react-test-renderer/shallow API is minimal for rendering.

What is the expected behavior?

I was expecting that react-test-renderer would support testing my component reaction to the different lifecycles and be capable to use shallow rendering. Is there some way to use react-test-renderer in this scenario? Or is better I move to another library like enzyme?

[gaearon]

Test renderer has no opinions about whether your code is synchronous or asynchronous. Just like ReactDOM doesn’t care about this.

But as I am using create function from react-test-renderer I need to get the re-render version from my component, what I think is not possible

When you call setState your component will re-render. Both with ReactDOM and with test renderer.

[VCuzmin]

But how I test componentDidUpdate? Please help me!