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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

Summary


In this chapter, you put together a simple book manager Redux app. With the app in place, you then learned how to install the Redux DevTools browser extension in Chrome. From there, you learned how to view and select actions.

There are a number of ways to view information about the application once you've selected an action. You can look at the action payload data. You can look at the application state in its entirety. You can look at diffs between the app state and the last dispatched action. These are all different approaches you can use to instrument your Redux applications.

Then, you learned how time travel debugging works in Redux DevTools. Because state changes are immutable in Redux, you can use Redux DevTools to jump around from action to action. This can drastically simplify debugging cycles. Lastly, you learned how to manually dispatch actions and import/export the state of your application.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to use Gatsby to generate static content from...