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+import React from "react";
+import { mount } from "enzyme";
+import CardList from "./CardList";
+import { CivicCard } from "..";
+import sampleCardMeta from "../../stories/CivicCardSample/sampleCardMeta";
+import sampleCardData from "../../stories/CivicCardSample/sampleCardData";
+
+describe("Card List", () => {
+  const projectsMock = [
+    {
+      type: "application",
+      title: "CIVIC Sandbox",
+      description:
+        "A common resource that can power ethical data exploration through interactive maps",
+      link: "/sandbox"
+    },
+    {
+      type: "collection",
+      title: "The Changing Complexion of Housing in Portland",
+      description:
+        "Examining the demographic shifts of populations and disparities in homeownership",
+      link: "/2019/housing"
+    },
+    {
+      type: "collection",
+      title: "Transit Operations Analytics Data (TOAD)",
+      description: "Visualizing transit operations data",
+      link: "/2019/transportation"
+    },
+    {
+      type: "collection",
+      title: "Disaster Resilience",
+      description:
+        "Assessing Risk and Prioritizing Action to Strengthen Resilience in the Face of a Natural Disaster",
+      link: "/cities/portland/disaster"
+    }
+  ];
+
+  const masterTagsList = {
+    topics: ["top1", "top2", "top3"],
+    locations: ["loc1", "loc2", "loc3"],
+    visualizations: ["vis1", "vis2", "vis3"]
+  };
+
+  function createMockCardRegistry(tagsList) {
+    const sampleCardsWithTags = tagsList.map(({ tags, title }) => {
+      const sampleCardMetaWithTags = data => {
+        return {
+          ...sampleCardMeta(data),
+          tags,
+          title
+        };
+      };
+
+      // eslint-disable-next-line react/prop-types
+      const SampleCard = ({ isLoading, Layout }) => (
+        <CivicCard
+          cardMeta={sampleCardMetaWithTags}
+          data={sampleCardData}
+          isLoading={isLoading}
+          Layout={Layout}
+        />
+      );
+
+      SampleCard.tags = tags;
+      return SampleCard;
+    });
+
+    const cardRegistryMock = {
+      tags: {
+        Transportation: 2,
+        Bus: 1,
+        Rail: 1,
+        Portland: 2,
+        Housing: 1,
+        Gentrification: 1,
+        Transit: 1,
+        Demo: 1
+      },
+      entries: sampleCardsWithTags.map(sampleCard => {
+        return {
+          slug: "template-file-card",
+          project: "@hackoregon/2019-template",
+          component: sampleCard
+        };
+      })
+    };
+
+    return cardRegistryMock;
+  }
+
+  const cardWithAllTags = {
+    tags: [
+      "top1",
+      "top2",
+      "top3",
+      "vis1",
+      "vis2",
+      "vis3",
+      "loc1",
+      "loc2",
+      "loc3"
+    ],
+    title: "card with all tags"
+  };
+  const cardTopic1 = { tags: ["top1"], title: "card topic 1" };
+  const cardLocation1 = { tags: ["loc1"], title: "card location 1" };
+  const cardVisualization1 = { tags: ["viz1"], title: "card visualization 1" };
+  const cardWithOneTagFromEachCategory = {
+    tags: ["top1", "loc1", "vis1"],
+    title: "card with one tag from each category"
+  };
+  const cardWithAnotherTagFromEachCategory = {
+    tags: ["top2", "loc2", "vis2"],
+    title: "card with another tag from each category"
+  };
+  const cardWith2TagsFromOneCategoryAnd1TagFromAnother = {
+    tags: ["top1", "top2", "loc1"],
+    title: "card with 2 tags from one category and one card from another"
+  };
+  const tagConstructor = [
+    cardWithAllTags,
+    cardTopic1,
+    cardLocation1,
+    cardVisualization1,
+    cardWithOneTagFromEachCategory,
+    cardWithAnotherTagFromEachCategory,
+    cardWith2TagsFromOneCategoryAnd1TagFromAnother
+  ];
+
+  const mockRegistry = createMockCardRegistry(tagConstructor);
+  it("Recieves the proper tag information for each card from the card registry", () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <CardList
+        CardRegistry={mockRegistry}
+        projects={projectsMock}
+        tagsList={masterTagsList}
+      />
+    );
+    const cardlist = wrapper.find("CardList");
+
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[0].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardWithAllTags.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[1].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardTopic1.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[2].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardLocation1.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[3].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardVisualization1.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[4].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardWithOneTagFromEachCategory.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[5].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardWithAnotherTagFromEachCategory.tags
+    );
+    expect(cardlist.props().CardRegistry.entries[6].component.tags).to.equal(
+      cardWith2TagsFromOneCategoryAnd1TagFromAnother.tags
+    );
+  });
+  it("State Experiment", () => {
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <CardList
+        CardRegistry={mockRegistry}
+        projects={projectsMock}
+        tagsList={masterTagsList}
+      />
+    );
+
+    console.log(
+      "STATE STATE STATE",
+      wrapper
+        .find("Checkbox")
+        .filter({ label: "top1" })
+        .first()
+        .debug()
+    );
+
+    // const top1Checkbox = wrapper
+    //   .find("Checkbox")
+    //   .filter({ label: "top1" })
+    //   .first();
+
+    // <Checkbox value={false} label="top1" onChange={[Function: onChange]} labelPlacement="end" variant="contained" disabled={false}>
+  });
+});