Error: Invariant Violation: dangerouslyRenderMarkup(...): Cannot render markup in a worker thread

React Tests Fails after set State causes second render

Up until now testing has been going well with JSDOM and Mocha. So far have not had to test any components that change their state. I found my first issue testing a component that changes it's state.

The Error

1) Reduced Test Case - @current Tests that Fail when Component changes state and renders "before each" hook:
 Error: Invariant Violation: dangerouslyRenderMarkup(...): Cannot render markup in a worker thread. Make sure `window` and `document` are available globally before requiring React when unit testing or use React.renderToString for server rendering.
  at Context.<anonymous> (test/react-reflux/parts/Reduced-spec.js:47:32)

The Component : Reduced.js

var React = require('react');

var Reduced = React.createClass({

  getInitialState() {
      console.log("start off with editing as false");
      return {editing: false};
  },

  edit() {
      console.log("Setting State to Edit");
      this.setState({editing: true});
  },

  render() {
      console.log("Rendering");
      return (
          <span onClick={this.edit}>
            {(this.state.editing) ? "Editing" : "Click To Edit"}
          </span>
      );
  }

});

module.exports = Reduced;

The Tests : 1-pass, 1-fail

    var React, TestUtils, jsdom, Reduced, expect;

    describe('Reduced Test Case', function () {

        before(function () {

            jsdom = require('jsdom');
            global.document = jsdom.jsdom('<!doctype html><html><body></body></html>');
            global.window = global.document.parentWindow;

            React = require('react/addons');
            TestUtils = React.addons.TestUtils;

            Reduced = require('./Reduced');

            expect = require('chai').expect;

            this.component = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
                <Reduced />
            );

            var root = TestUtils.findRenderedDOMComponentWithTag(this.component, 'span');
            this.el = root.getDOMNode();

        });

        describe("Tests Pass without simulate", function () {

            it("Root Element Reads 'Click To Edit'", function () {
                expect(this.el.innerHTML).to.equal('Click To Edit');
            });

        });

        describe("Tests that Fail when Component changes state and renders", function () {

            beforeEach(function () {

                //
                //  Simulate invokes edit, invokes set state, invokes render, then error occures
                //

                TestUtils.Simulate.click(this.el);

            });

            it("Root Element Reads 'Editing'", function () {
                expect(this.el.innerHTML).to.equal('Editing');
            });

        });

    });

The Results

> mocha --compilers js:babel/register

Reduced Test Case - @current
  start off with editing as false
  Rendering

Tests Pass without simulate
  ✓ Root Element Reads 'Click To Edit'

Tests that Fail when Component changes state and renders
  Setting State to Edit
  Rendering 

  1) "before each" hook


1 passing (379ms)
1 failing

1) Reduced Test Case Tests that Fail when Component changes state and renders "before each" hook:
Error: Invariant Violation: dangerouslyRenderMarkup(...): Cannot render markup in a worker thread. Make sure `window` and `document` are available globally before requiring React when unit testing or use React.renderToString for server rendering.
at Context.<anonymous> (test/Reduced-spec.js:47:32)

I've been going crazy

Everything is loaded after global.window and global.document
The Simulate Event invokes edit(), then render() before error
All React Mocha JSDOM tests have been working well until this state change issue
Please help ???

Solution

The setup JSDOM setup was missing global.navigator.

global.navigator = {
   userAgent: 'node.js'
};