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How I solved Supabase's chainable query builder problem in React Native tests
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How I solved Supabase's chainable query builder problem in React Native tests

via Dev.toDusty Mumphrey

Every React Native + Supabase tutorial ends the same way. The app works in the simulator. Tests are left as an exercise for the reader. This one is different. I recently published react-native-expo-supabase-starter , a production-ready starter extracted from ReptiDex , a mobile app I built and launched solo. 50 paid subscribers and 200 animals tracked within 9 days of launch. The starter includes the full auth flow, a RevenueCat subscription system, TanStack Query, and Zustand. But the part most people ask about is the testing setup. Specifically: how do you actually test Supabase queries in Jest without a running database or a fake HTTP server? Here's the problem and how I solved it. The Problem Supabase queries are fluent chains: const { data , error } = await supabase . from ( ' profiles ' ) . select ( ' * ' ) . eq ( ' id ' , userId ) . single () A naive jest.mock('@supabase/supabase-js') breaks because each method in the chain returns a new object. The mock returns undefined partwa

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