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React 16 Tooling

By : Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
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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

Building on Airbnb standards


Organizations that have large JavaScript code bases have invested heavily in code quality tools. This includes investments in configuring tools like ESLint. The great part about using a standard set of configuration values for enforcing code quality is that you don't have any discrepancies between developers due to a slight configuration difference.

ESLint allows you to install and use npm packages as configuration settings to use and extend. A popular choice is the Airbnb standard. Let's use the ESLint init tool again to get started with Airbnb JavaScript code quality standards. First, run the init tool again:

npm run lint -- --init

The first question asks you how you want to configure ESLint. Instead of answering questions, you can choose a guide:

? How would you like to configure ESLint? 
  Answer questions about your style 
 Use a popular style guide 
  Inspect your JavaScript file(s)   

The next question lets you choose which guide to follow. You want Airbnb...