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React Application Architecture for Production

By : Alan Alickovic
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React Application Architecture for Production

By: Alan Alickovic

Overview of this book

Building large-scale applications in production can be overwhelming with the amount of tooling choices and lack of cohesive resources. To address these challenges, this hands-on guide covers best practices and web application development examples to help you build enterprise-ready applications with React in no time. Throughout the book, you’ll work through a real-life practical example that demonstrates all the concepts covered. You’ll learn to build modern frontend applications—built from scratch and ready for production. Starting with an overview of the React ecosystem, the book will guide you in identifying the tools available to solve complex development challenges. You’ll then advance to building APIs, components, and pages to form a complete frontend app. The book will also share best practices for testing, securing, and packaging your app in a structured way before finally deploying your app with scalability in mind. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to efficiently build production-ready applications by following industry practices and expert tips.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Chakra UI

Whenever we build a UI for an application, we must decide what to use for styling our components. In addition, we must also consider whether we want to make all components from scratch or use a component library with pre-made components.

The advantage of using a component library is that it gives us a productivity boost as we don’t have to implement components that have already been implemented, such as buttons, dialogs, and tabs. Also, some libraries come with great accessibility defaults out of the box, so we don’t have to think about it as much as we would if we built everything from scratch. These libraries can come with costs, such as difficult customizability or a significant impact on the final bundle size. On the other hand, they save us a lot of development time.

For our application, we will use Chakra UI, a component library built on top of a combination of emotion and styled-system, which will allow us to write CSS in JavaScript in a consistent...