reflex-testing-state

A testing guide for Reflex State, the Python classes that hold an app’s data and event logic. It shows how to test them directly with pytest, including asynchronous code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write unit tests for synchronous and asynchronous state handlers, derived values, substates, API or database calls, and handlers connected to UI components.
Why use it?
It avoids needing a browser or running the full app just to check state behavior. It also clarifies how to test loading flags, computed values, streaming, external services, and background tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jenreh/appkit/reflex-testing-state
Any agent
npx skills add jenreh/appkit --skill reflex-testing-state
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jenreh/appkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 6 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 509 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00006 $0.00509
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00051

Measured 2d ago against content hash a3ec12ccaa0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reflex-testing-state scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/reflex-testing-state/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Testing Reflex State

Reflex State is a plain Python class — no browser or runtime needed. Test it directly with pytest and pytest-asyncio.

Setup

pip install pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-cov

pyproject.toml:

[tool.pytest.ini_options]
testpaths = ["tests/unit"]
asyncio_mode = "auto"
python_files = ["test_*.py"]

File layout

tests/unit/
├── conftest.py
├── test_base_state.py
└── test_project_state.py

Patterns

Base vars → test defaults directly Sync handlers → call on instance, assert result Async handlersawait, assert is_loading is False after Streaming handlers → consume with async for Computed vars → mutate base vars, assert property Substates → instantiate subclass independently External I/Ounittest.mock.patch at myapp.state.* Background tasks → patch __aenter__/__aexit__

See references/PATTERNS.md for full code examples. See references/FIXTURES.md for shared fixture setup.

Decision: which pattern to use?

Sync handler? → Test directly, no async Async handler? → Use await, check loading flag resets Handler bound to Radix UI component? → Add str AND list[str] test cases Handler calls API/DB? → Mock with AsyncMock, test both success and failure Background task (@rx.event(background=True))? → Patch context manager

Run

pytest tests/unit/ -v --cov=myapp/state --cov-report=term-missing
pytest tests/unit/test_project_state.py -v   # single module
pytest tests/unit/ -x                        # stop on first failure
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A a3ec12ccaa0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reflex-testing-state is a skill published in the GitHub repository jenreh/appkit (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 509 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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