render does not return the renderer

[wKovacs64]

The render section of the README says:

For convenience it also returns react-test-renderer's instance and renderer objects, in case you need more control.

But it doesn't. But it should! 🙂 Looks like they were removed in e6ac5ad, but I think they would be valuable (at least renderer). Was there a reason they were removed?

PR incoming to add them back.

[thymikee]

Renderer was removed so you're not allowed to access the component internal instance. What's your use case?

[wKovacs64]

The getBy APIs weren't finding something that I knew was there, so I needed to debug to see what react-native-testing-library was seeing. I was able to figure it out* using renderer.toJSON() (after modifying my local node_modules render.js to include renderer).

(* react-native's jest setup script was mocking out ScrollView, but that's neither here nor there)

[thymikee]

Closing, as we've moved the discussion to the mentioned PR and changed the scope of the ticket.