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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Michele Bertoli
Book Image

React Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Michele Bertoli

Overview of this book

Taking a complete journey through the most valuable design patterns in React, this book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that’s for new or already existing projects. It will help you to make your applications more flexible, perform better, and easier to maintain – giving your workflow a huge boost when it comes to speed without reducing quality. We’ll begin by understanding the internals of React before gradually moving on to writing clean and maintainable code. We’ll build components that are reusable across the application, structure applications, and create forms that actually work. Then we’ll style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Finally, we’ll write tests effectively and you’ll learn how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of the book, you’ll be saved from a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and you will be on the road to becoming a React expert.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
React Design Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about the benefits of testing, and the frameworks you can use to cover your React components with tests. Jest is a fully-featured tool while Mocha lets you customize your experience.

The TestUtils let you render your components outside a browser and Enzyme is a powerful tool to access the output of rendering within the tests. We have seen how to test components using mocks and writing expectations.

We learned how Snapshot Testing can make it even easier to test the output of components and its code coverage tools helps you monitor the testing state of the codebase.

It is important to bear in mind common solutions when it comes to testing complex components such as Higher-Order Cmponents or forms with multiples nested fields.

Finally, you have learned how the React Developer Tools help debugging and how to approach error handling in React.