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Unit tests for individual components PostCard

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- Now that we've built a solid foundation for testing forms and handling edge cases, let's shift the focus to what they would actually interact with, which is the content. And in this video we'll be testing the user interactions on the postcard. Testing UI components like this is where React Testing Library truly shines. For instance, checking if it's rendering the right content, handling interaction correctly, and even providing visual feedback. Before we write our tests, we need two key things. Solid mock data and a proper testing environment. So first we define a mock post that mirrors our actual API response structure. This structure has an ID tied to body, like count, comments count and isLiked flag. We want to ensure that our tests reflect real world usage. Always remember to shape your mock data to look exactly like what your API actually returns because I can't tell you how many times I've been burned by test passing with pretty mock data only to break in production when the…

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