---
title: "Set up Detox for end-to-end testing in your React Native App"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/set-up-detox-for-end-to-end-testing-in-your-react-native-app-7bixmaetv
source_url: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/set-up-detox-for-end-to-end-testing-in-your-react-native-app
type: article
source: "thoughbot"
published: 2024-04-04T00:02:21.723Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["typescript", "react-native", "jest"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Set up Detox for end-to-end testing in your React Native App

**[thoughbot](https://daily.dev/sources/thoughbot)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to set up Detox for end-to-end testing in a React Native app. Detox is a testing library for React Native that allows writing end-to-end tests for both iOS and Android applications. The post provides step-by-step instructions on installing Detox, configuring it with Jest, and building the debug versions of the app for iOS and Android. It also emphasizes the importance of test-driven development (TDD) and provides a simple implementation example.

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