Deployment update checks now receive a timestamp from GitHub’s documented commit API instead of silently falling back to `unknown` when its website response changes. Valid deployment metadata is cached for ten minutes; development and failed lookups are uncached so they can recover. **Changed:** - Validate and normalize the committer date in the shared Next/TanStack handler, preserving the existing response shape and `unknown` fallback. - Exclude only the exact deployment-metadata endpoint from TanStack’s private API cache default; authenticated APIs and server functions retain it. - Keep the client update query unpinned and its existing toast threshold unchanged. **Added:** - Shared-handler tests through both Next and the TanStack adapter for dates, malformed payloads, upstream failures, and recovery. - Tests using the installed Vercel route compiler for root and `/dashboard` cache rules, security headers, and empty Next configuration. ## To test - On the TanStack preview, request `/dashboard/api/get-deployment-commit`; compare its SHA and UTC timestamp with the deployed commit’s GitHub committer date. - Repeat the request to check CDN caching. Vercel consumes `s-maxage`, so use cache-hit/age evidence as well as client-visible headers. - Confirm another API route and a server-function path retain `private, no-store`. - Open an existing project, reload it while clean, and inspect the untouched support form for metadata-related errors. Validation: 60 focused tests, Studio typecheck, scoped ESLint, formatting, knip, and both framework production builds passed. Live unauthenticated GitHub lookup with the configured API version returned the expected committer date. Full source lint ratchet also passed, excluding only generated build directories. Local TanStack browser checks passed for clean project/reload, general settings, untouched support form, and naturally emitted development metadata formatting; no errors or unexpected update toast appeared. The positive two-deployment toast and submitted support-version formatting were not exercised. Deployed native Next previews returned the exact commit SHA and expected UTC timestamp; repeated metadata requests produced CDN HIT responses (ages 26 and 100 seconds). Build logs establish that the staging preview also ran Next, so it does not validate TanStack edge header behavior. A separate preview-only redeployment with a deployment-scoped TanStack override was confirmed to run Vite. It returned the same correct SHA/timestamp, a repeat CDN cache HIT, and private, no-store on the neighboring UTC API. No project settings or production aliases were changed. Installed Vercel compiler tests cover the remaining root/base-path and server-function rules. No new environment variable, token, or dependency is required. Co-authored-by: Alaister Young <10985857+alaister@users.noreply.github.com>
UI Testing Notes
Rules
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All tests should be run consistently (avoid situations whereby tests fails "sometimes")
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Group tests in folders based on the feature they are testing. Avoid file/folder based folder names since those can change and we will forget to update the tests.
Examples: /logs /reports /projects /database-settings /auth
Custom Render and Custom Render Hook
customRender and customRenderHook are wrappers around render and renderHook that add some necessary providers like QueryClientProvider, TooltipProvider and NuqsTestingAdapter.
Generally use those instead of the default render and renderHook functions.
import { customRender, customRenderHook } from 'tests/lib/custom-render'
customRender(<MyComponent />)
customRenderHook(() => useMyHook())
Mocking API Requests
To mock API requests, we use the msw library.
Global mocks can be found in tests/lib/msw-global-api-mocks.ts.
To mock an endpoint you can use the addAPIMock function. Make sure to add the mock in the beforeEach hook. It won't work with beforeAll if you have many tests.
beforeEach(() => {
addAPIMock({
method: 'get',
path: '/api/my-endpoint',
response: {
data: { foo: 'bar' },
},
})
})
API Mocking Tips:
- Keep mocks in the same folder as the tests that use them
- Add a test to verify the mock is working
This will make debugging and updating the mocks easier.
test('mock is working', async () => {
const response = await fetch('/api/my-endpoint')
expect(response.json()).resolves.toEqual({ data: { foo: 'bar' } })
})
Mocking Nuqs URL Parameters
To render a component that uses Nuqs with some predefined query parameters, you can use customRender with the nuqs prop.
customRender(<MyComponent />, {
nuqs: {
searchParams: {
search: 'hello world',
},
},
})
<Popover> vs <Dropdown>
When simulating clicks on these components, do the following:
// for Popovers
import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event'
await userEvent.click('Hello world')
// for Dropdowns
import clickDropdown from 'tests/helpers'
clickDropdown('Hello world')