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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

Introducing Vitest

Vitest is a unit test framework built on Vite, designed for speed and minimal configuration. It serves as a replacement for various testing tools such as Jest, Mocha, and Chai. Since Vitest is built on top of the Jest API, if you already know how to use Jest, it works in a similar manner.

In this context, we will utilize Vite, a build tool that aims to provide a fast and lean development experience for modern web projects.

Firstly, you need to install Vite globally with:

npm install vite -g

After it’s installed, you need to create your first project with the npm command:

npm create vite@latest

It will ask you for the project name. You can use my-first-vite-project, then for the framework you want to use (React), and finally, choose the variant (TypeScript):

Figure 16.6: npm create vite@latest

Next, you need to install the project dependencies and run the npm run dev command. If you do so, you will see something similar...