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React Application Architecture for Production

By : Alan Alickovic
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React Application Architecture for Production

By: Alan Alickovic

Overview of this book

Building large-scale applications in production can be overwhelming with the amount of tooling choices and lack of cohesive resources. To address these challenges, this hands-on guide covers best practices and web application development examples to help you build enterprise-ready applications with React in no time. Throughout the book, you’ll work through a real-life practical example that demonstrates all the concepts covered. You’ll learn to build modern frontend applications—built from scratch and ready for production. Starting with an overview of the React ecosystem, the book will guide you in identifying the tools available to solve complex development challenges. You’ll then advance to building APIs, components, and pages to form a complete frontend app. The book will also share best practices for testing, securing, and packaging your app in a structured way before finally deploying your app with scalability in mind. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to efficiently build production-ready applications by following industry practices and expert tips.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Defining the API layer for the features

The API layer will be defined in the api folder of every feature. An API request can be either a query or a mutation. A query describes requests that only fetch data. A mutation describes an API call that mutates data on the server.

For every API request, we will have a file that includes and exports an API request definition function and a hook for consuming the request inside React. For the request definition functions, we will be using the API client we just created with Axios, and for the hooks, we will be using the hooks from React Query.

We’ll learn how to implement it in action in the following sections.

Jobs

For the jobs feature, we have three API calls:

  • GET /jobs
  • GET /jobs/:jobId
  • POST /jobs

Get jobs

Let’s start with the API call that fetches jobs. To define it in our application, let’s create the src/features/jobs/api/get-jobs.ts file and add the following:

import { useQuery...