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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)

Using GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD tool that allows us to automate, build, test, and deploy pipelines. We can create workflows that run on a specific event in the repository.

To understand how it works, let’s have a look at some of its components in the following sections.

Workflows

A workflow is a process that can run one or more jobs. We can define them in YAML format within the .github/workflows folder. Workflows can be run when a specified event is triggered. We can also re-run workflows manually directly from GitHub. A repository can have as many workflows as we want.

Events

An event, when fired, will cause the workflow to run. GitHub activities can trigger events, such as pushing to the repository or creating a pull request. Besides that, they can also be started on a schedule or via HTTP POST requests.

Jobs

A job defines a series of steps that will be executed in a workflow. A step can be either an action or a script that can be executed...