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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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Book Image

React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

2 (1)
By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

Filled with useful React patterns that you can use in your projects straight away, this book will help you save time and build better web applications with ease. React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a hands-on guide for those who want to take their coding skills to a new level. You’ll spend most of your time working your way through the principles of writing maintainable and clean code, but you’ll also gain a deeper insight into the inner workings of React. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build components that are reusable across the application, how to structure applications, and create forms that actually work. Then you’ll build on your knowledge by exploring how to style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Once you’ve mastered the rest, you’ll learn how to write tests effectively and how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you'll be able to avoid the process of trial and error and developmental headaches. Instead, you’ll be able to use your new skills to efficiently build and deploy real-world React web applications you can be proud of.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Hello React!
4
How React Works
10
Performance, Improvements, and Production!
19
About Packt

Summary

I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, which is full of very good information pertaining to the new React Hooks. So far, you have learned how the new React Hooks work, how to fetch data with Hooks, how to migrate a class component to React Hooks, how the effects work, the difference between memo, useMemo, and useCallback, and finally, you learned how the useReducer Hook works and the main difference compared with react-redux. This will help you to improve the performance of your React components.

In the next chapter, we will go through some of the most popular composition patterns and tools.