Trigger events in testing scenarios

[abingham]

Use use httpx.Client in my tests to make sure my endpoints all work as expected. Naively, I had expected it to help test various HTMX features in the returned pages. For example, I use hx-trigger="load" and hx-trigger="revealed" in some places, and I thought these would be triggered. In hindsight, of course, this was a wrongheaded expectation, but it left me wondering what I should do to actually exercise these triggers.

Do I need to go with a full selenium-style test, i.e. with an actual browser, to interact with these triggers? Or is there some lighter-weight "small headless browser" I can use to fetch my pages and render them? Or perhaps some other kind of approach I just don't know about?

Any advice, suggestions, or warnings would be great!

[Telroshan]

Or is there some lighter-weight "small headless browser" I can use to fetch my pages and render them

That's what we do for htmx's own test suite, we use mocha-chrome.
See these hx-trigger="revealed" tests, or this hx-trigger="load" one for examples

Hope this helps!

[abingham]

Thanks, that does help a lot!