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React 16 Tooling

By : Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
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React 16 Tooling

By: Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt

Overview of this book

React 16 Tooling covers the most important tools, utilities, and libraries that every React developer needs to know — in detail. As React has grown, the amazing toolset around it has also grown, adding features and enhancing the development workflow. Each of these essential tools is presented in a practical manner and in a logical order mirroring the development workflow. These tools will make your development life simpler and happier, enabling you to create better and more performant apps. Adam starts with a hand-picked selection of the best tools for the React 16 ecosystem. For starters, there’s the create-react-app utility that’s officially supported by the React team. Not only does this tool bootstrap your React project for you, it also provides a consistent and stable framework to build upon. The premise is that when you don’t have to think about meta development work, more focus goes into the product itself. Other React tools follow this same approach to automating and improving your development life. Jest makes unit testing quicker. Flow makes catching errors easier. Docker containers make deployment in a stack simpler. Storybook makes developing components straightforward. ESLint makes writing standardized code faster. The React DevTools plugin makes debugging a cinch. React 16 Tooling clears away the barriers so you can focus on developing the good parts. In this book, we’ll look at each of these powerful tools in detail, showing you how to build the perfect React ecosystem to develop your apps within.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
2
Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App
Index

Adding React plugins to ESLint


Let's assume that you want to use the Airbnb set of ESLint rules after having tried it out and liking it. Let's also assume that you want to lint your React component code as well. During the ESLint init process, you've answered No to the question that asks whether or not your project uses React. This time, let's say Yes. So, once again, run the ESLint init process:

npm run lint -- --init

And once again, you want to use the Airbnb lint rules:

? Which style guide do you want to follow? 
  Google 
›Airbnb 
  Standard  

When it asks if you use React, say Yes:

? Do you use React? (y/N) y

You'll notice that a couple of extra packages are installed:

+ [email protected]+ [email protected]

Now let's write some React code so that we can lint it. Add the following component to MyComponent.js:

import React, { Component } from 'react'; 
 
class MyComponent extends Component { 
  render() { 
    return ( 
      <section> 
        <h1>My Component&lt...