Could fireEvent return the event created somehow?

[dbismut]

Access the event created by fireEvent

I would like to get access the event created by fireEvent. I rely on event.timeStamp to do calculations in my component and testing without access to the created event is complex.

Suggested implementation:

const { canceled, event } = fireEvent[key](node, { ...eventProps })

canceled would be the result of element.dispatchEvent (ie the current return value of fireEvent) and event would be the event created.

Describe alternatives you've considered:

• Base my calculations on Date.now() in my component
• Use timeStamp = Date.now() + 1 right before fireEvent (for some reason they equal the timeStamp created by fireEvent
• [current solution]: create the event manually and fire it with fireEvent(element, event)

[kentcdodds]

What if instead of that we exposed an easy way to create the event you pass?

import {createEvent} from 'dom-testing-library'

const myEvent = createEvent.click()
fireEvent(node, myEvent)

[dbismut]

Indeed! Way more elegant!

[kentcdodds]

Would you be willing to make a pull request to do that?

[dbismut]

Sure, if I have time, tomorrow!

[kentcdodds]

This is done :)