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React 16 Tooling

By : Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
Book Image

React 16 Tooling

By: Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt

Overview of this book

React 16 Tooling covers the most important tools, utilities, and libraries that every React developer needs to know — in detail. As React has grown, the amazing toolset around it has also grown, adding features and enhancing the development workflow. Each of these essential tools is presented in a practical manner and in a logical order mirroring the development workflow. These tools will make your development life simpler and happier, enabling you to create better and more performant apps. Adam starts with a hand-picked selection of the best tools for the React 16 ecosystem. For starters, there’s the create-react-app utility that’s officially supported by the React team. Not only does this tool bootstrap your React project for you, it also provides a consistent and stable framework to build upon. The premise is that when you don’t have to think about meta development work, more focus goes into the product itself. Other React tools follow this same approach to automating and improving your development life. Jest makes unit testing quicker. Flow makes catching errors easier. Docker containers make deployment in a stack simpler. Storybook makes developing components straightforward. ESLint makes writing standardized code faster. The React DevTools plugin makes debugging a cinch. React 16 Tooling clears away the barriers so you can focus on developing the good parts. In this book, we’ll look at each of these powerful tools in detail, showing you how to build the perfect React ecosystem to develop your apps within.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
2
Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App
Index

Fetching remote data


Gatsby has a rich ecosystem of data source plugins—we don't have time go through all of them. It's common for a Gatsby source plugin to reach out to another system and fetch data over the network at build time. The gatsby-source-hacker-news plugin is a great plugin to start with, so that you can see how this fetching process works with Gatsby.

Instead of building your own Hacker News website using Gatsby, we'll use the demo created by https://github.com/ajayns. To get started, you can clone into his repo as follows:

git clone https://github.com/ajayns/gatsby-hacker-news.gitcd gatsby-hacker-news

Then you can install dependencies, including the gatsby-source-hacker-news plugin:

npm install

You don't need to edit the project configuration to enable anything, because this is already a Gatsby project. Simply start the development server as you've done throughout this chapter:

gatsby develop

Compared to other websites you've worked on this chapter, this time around the build takes...