diff --git a/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.js b/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.js
index f83e7b650b..693e5b8cbb 100644
--- a/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.js
+++ b/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.js
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch =>
 
 const placeholder = 'Search 5,000+ tutorials';
 
-class SearchBar extends Component {
+export class SearchBar extends Component {
   constructor(props) {
     super(props);
 
@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ class SearchBar extends Component {
   }
 
   componentDidMount() {
-    const searchInput = document.querySelector('.ais-SearchBox-input');
-    searchInput.id = 'fcc_instantsearch';
     document.addEventListener('click', this.handleFocus);
   }
 
diff --git a/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.test.js b/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4559c52fd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/components/search/searchBar/SearchBar.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/* global jest, expect */
+import React from 'react';
+import 'jest-dom/extend-expect';
+import ShallowRenderer from 'react-test-renderer/shallow';
+
+import { SearchBar } from './SearchBar';
+
+describe('<SearchBar />', () => {
+  it('renders to the DOM', () => {
+    const shallow = new ShallowRenderer();
+    shallow.render(<SearchBar {...searchBarProps} />);
+    const result = shallow.getRenderOutput();
+    expect(result).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  /* Todo: When e2e testing is in place,
+  add tests to check that the search bar
+  resets to -1 on change/input, redirects to a
+  selected hit, and redirects to dev news if
+  there's a query and no hit is selected */
+});
+
+const searchBarProps = {
+  toggleSearchDropdown: jest.fn(),
+  toggleSearchFocused: jest.fn(),
+  updateSearchQuery: jest.fn()
+};