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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to compose our reusable components and make them communicate effectively. Props are a way to decouple components from each other and create a clean and well-defined interface.

Then, we went through some of the most interesting composition patterns in React. The first one was the so-called container and the other was the presentational pattern. These patterns helped us to separate the logic from the presentation and create more specialized components with a single responsibility.

We learned how to deal with context without needing to couple our components to it, thanks to HOCs. Finally, we saw how we could compose components dynamically by following the FunctionAsChild pattern.

In the next chapter, we will learn about GraphQL and how to create JWT tokens, perform a login, and create models with Sequelize.