What are “stubbed child components” in Vue Test Utils?

Question

Vue Test Utils has an API method called shallowMount() that:

...creates a Wrapper that contains the mounted and rendered Vue component, but w

Answer 1

You can find more information about stubbed components in this unofficial testing guide for Vue.

https://lmiller1990.github.io/vue-testing-handbook/#what-is-this-guide

In short:

A stub is simply a piece of code that stands in for another.

The Vue Test Utils information also has some information about shallow mount:

https://vue-test-utils.vuejs.org/guides/#common-tips

The Vue Test Utils is lacking quite a bit of context though.