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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)

Configuring the pipeline for deploying to Vercel

When our testing jobs finish, we want to deploy the application to Vercel. To start deploying to Vercel from GitHub Actions, we need to do a couple of things:

  • Have a Vercel account
  • Disable GitHub integration for Vercel
  • Link the project to Vercel
  • Provide environment variables to GitHub Actions
  • Create the job that will deploy the application

Having a Vercel account

Vercel is straightforward to get started with. Visit https://vercel.com/signup and create an account if you don’t have one.

Disabling GitHub integration for Vercel

Vercel is a platform that has excellent integration with GitHub out of the box. This means that whenever we push changes to the repository, a new version of the application will be deployed to Vercel automatically. However, in our case, we want to verify that our application works as expected before the deployment step so that we can perform this task from the CI/CD pipeline...