Cryptic error message when passing a number to `getByText`

[kaiyoma]

• @testing-library/dom version: 7.26.6
• Testing Framework and version: Jest 26.6.3
• DOM Environment: jsdom 16.4.0

Relevant code or config

screen.getByText(42)

What you did:

Accidentally passed a number to getByText.

What happened:

    TypeError: matcher.test is not a function
      at fuzzyMatches (../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/matches.js:30:20)
      at ../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/queries/text.js:37:142
          at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
      at queryAllByText (../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/queries/text.js:37:127)
      at ../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/query-helpers.js:87:17
      at ../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/query-helpers.js:62:17
      at getByText (../../node_modules/@testing-library/dom/dist/query-helpers.js:106:19)
      at Object.<anonymous> (src/LabelValueTable/__test__/index.spec.tsx:20:23)

Problem description:

This error message is very confusing and not helpful. This seems like a common mistake, so a more helpful error message would save everyone a lot of time.

Suggested solution:

Improve the error message to be clear.

[kentcdodds]

We could probably just pass it to String and avoid the error altogether.

[github-actions]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 7.27.0 🎉

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