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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán

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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

React is an adaptable JavaScript library for building complex UIs from small, detached bits called components. This book is designed to take you through the most valuable design patterns in React, helping you learn how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations. You’ll get started by understanding the internals of React, in addition to covering Babel 7 and Create React App 2.0, which will help you write clean and maintainable code. To build on your skills, you will focus on concepts such as class components, stateless components, and pure components. You'll learn about new React features, such as the context API and React Hooks that will enable you to build components, which will be reusable across your applications. The book will then provide insights into the techniques of styling React components and optimizing them to make applications faster and more responsive. In the concluding chapters, you’ll discover ways to write tests more effectively and learn how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to tackle any developmental setbacks when working with React. You’ll be able to make your applications more flexible, efficient, and easy to maintain, thereby giving your workflow a boost when it comes to speed, without reducing quality.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Section 1: Hello React!

Section 1: Hello React!

Taking Your First Steps with React

Taking Your First Steps with React

Declarative programming

Unlearning everything

Common misconceptions

Clean Up Your Code

Clean Up Your Code

The basics of functional programming

Section 2: How React works

Section 2: How React works

Creating Truly Reusable Components

Creating Truly Reusable Components

Creating classes

Reusable components

Compose All the Things

Compose All the Things

Communication between components

The container and presentational pattern

Higher order components

FunctionAsChild

Proper Data Fetching

Proper Data Fetching

Write Code for the Browser

Write Code for the Browser

Handling events

Scalable Vector Graphics

Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!

Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!

Make Your Components Look Beautiful

Make Your Components Look Beautiful

CSS in JavaScript

Styled components

Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit

Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit

Universal applications

Reasons to implement SSR

A basic example

A data fetching example

Improve the Performance of Your Applications

Improve the Performance of Your Applications

Optimization techniques

Common solutions

Tools and libraries

About Testing and Debugging

About Testing and Debugging

The benefits of testing

Painless JavaScript testing with Jest

React Router

Installation and configuration

Creating our sections

Adding parameters to the routes

Anti-Patterns to be Avoided

Anti-Patterns to be Avoided

Initializing the state using properties

Mutating the state

Using indexes as a key

Spreading properties on DOM elements

Deploying to Production

Deploying to Production

Creating our first Digital Ocean Droplet

Configuring nginx, PM2, and a domain

Implementing CircleCI for continuous integration

Next Steps

Contributing to React

Distributing your code

Publishing an npm package

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Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!

We will begin this section by learning how to make our components beautiful, and come to understand the concept of server-side rendering in React for both fun and profit. We will then learn how to improve the performance of our applications by testing and debugging them. We will also dip into a quick chapter about React Router. Finally, we will end this section and the book itself by learning how to deploy our application to production and see what steps you can take next.

In this section, we will cover the following chapters:

Chapter 7, Make Your Components Look Beautiful
Chapter 8, Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit
Chapter 9, Improve the Performance of Your Applications
Chapter 10, About Testing and Debugging
Chapter 11, React Router
Chapter 12, Anti-Patterns to be Avoided
Chapter 13, Deploying to Production
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