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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

Exploring Popular Composition Patterns

In this chapter, we will learn how to make components communicate with each other effectively, which is a crucial part of building complex React applications using small, testable, and maintainable components. By mastering the popular composition patterns and tools in React, you will be able to take control of every single part of your application and build scalable and extensible software.

Let’s dive in and explore how we can leverage these patterns and tools to build better React applications. We will cover the following topics:

  • How components communicate with each other using props and children
  • The container and presentational patterns and how they can make our code more maintainable
  • What higher-order components (HOCs) are and how, thanks to them, we can structure our applications in a better way
  • What the function of the child component pattern is and what its benefits are