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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

Optimization techniques


It is important to notice that, in all the examples in this book, we are using apps that have either been created with create-react-app or have been created from scratch, but always with the development version of React.

Using the development version of React is very useful for coding and debugging as it gives you all the necessary information to fix the various issues. However, all the checks and warnings come with a cost which we want to avoid in production.

So, the very first optimization that we should do to our applications is to build the bundle setting the NODE_ENV environment variable to production. This is pretty easy with Webpack and it is just a matter of using the DefinePlugin in the following way:

new webpack.DefinePlugin({ 
  'process.env': { 
    NODE_ENV: JSON.stringify('production') 
  } 
}), 

To achieve the best performance, we not only want to create the bundle with the production flag activated but we also want to minify the resulting code to save...