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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

2 (1)
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

Communicating components

Reusing functions is one of our goals as developers, and in the previous chapter, we saw how React makes it easy to create reusable components. Reusable components can be shared across multiple domains of your application to avoid duplication.

Small components with a clean interface can be composed together to create complex applications that are powerful and maintainable at the same time.

Composing React components is pretty straightforward; you just have to include them in the render:

const Profile = ({ user }) => ( 
<>
<Picture profileImageUrl={user.profileImageUrl} />
<UserName name={user.name} screenName={user.screenName} />
</>
)

For example, you can create a Profile component by simply composing a Picture component to display the profile image and a UserName component to display the name and the screen name of the user.

In this way, you can produce new parts of the user interface very quickly, writing only a few lines...