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React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Fourth Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Fourth Edition

4.2 (6)
By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

React helps you work smarter, not harder — but to reap the benefits of this popular JavaScript library and its components, you need a straightforward guide that will teach you how to make the most of it. React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices will help you use React effectively to make your applications more flexible, easier to maintain, and improve their performance, while giving your workflow a huge boost. With a better organization of topics and knowledge about best practices added to your developer toolbox, the updated fourth edition ensures an enhanced learning experience. The book is split into three parts; the first will teach you the fundamentals of React patterns, the second will dive into how React works, and the third will focus on real-world applications. All the code samples are updated to the latest version of React and you’ll also find plenty of new additions that explore React 18 and Node 19’s newest features, alongside MonoRepo Architecture and a dedicated chapter on TypeScript. By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently build and deploy real-world React web applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Building a frontend login system with Apollo Client

In the previous section, we learned how to build the backend for a login system using Apollo Server to create our GraphQL queries and mutations. You are probably thinking, Great, I have the backend working, but how can I use this on the frontend? And you’re right: I always like to explain things with full examples and not just show basic things, even if this will take longer to do. So let’s get started!

You can find the code for the example in this section at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/React-18-Design-Patterns-and-Best-Practices-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Chapter13/graphql/frontend.

Configuring Webpack 5

Instead of using a vite project, we will configure a React project from scratch using Webpack 5 and Node.js.

The first thing we need to do is create the frontend directory and install all the packages inside. To do this, we will execute the following commands:

npm init --yes
npm install @apollo...