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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

By : Carlos Santana Roldán
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Book Image

React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices - Third Edition

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By: Carlos Santana Roldán

Overview of this book

Filled with useful React patterns that you can use in your projects straight away, this book will help you save time and build better web applications with ease. React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a hands-on guide for those who want to take their coding skills to a new level. You’ll spend most of your time working your way through the principles of writing maintainable and clean code, but you’ll also gain a deeper insight into the inner workings of React. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to build components that are reusable across the application, how to structure applications, and create forms that actually work. Then you’ll build on your knowledge by exploring how to style React components and optimize them to make applications faster and more responsive. Once you’ve mastered the rest, you’ll learn how to write tests effectively and how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you'll be able to avoid the process of trial and error and developmental headaches. Instead, you’ll be able to use your new skills to efficiently build and deploy real-world React web applications you can be proud of.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Hello React!
4
How React Works
10
Performance, Improvements, and Production!
19
About Packt
React Router

React, unlike Angular, is a library instead of a framework, meaning specific functionalities (for example, routing or PropTypes) are not part of the React Core. Instead, routing is handled by a third-party library called React Router.

In this chapter, you will see how to implement React Router in your application, and by the end of the relevant sections, you will be able to add dynamic routes and understand how React Router works.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the differences between the react-router, react-router-dom, and react-router-native packages
  • How to install and configure React Router
  • Adding the <Switch> component
  • Adding the exact property
  • Adding parameters to the routes