React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

This is the code repository for React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition, published by Packt.

Design, build and deploy production-ready web applications using standard industry practices

What is this book about?

React is an adaptable JavaScript library for building complex UIs from small, detached bits called components. This book is designed to take you through the most valuable design patterns in React, helping you learn how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations. You’ll get started by understanding the internals of React, in addition to covering Babel 7 and Create React App 2.0, which will help you write clean and maintainable code. To build on your skills, you will focus on concepts such as class components, stateless components, and pure components. You'll learn about new React features, such as the context API and React Hooks that will enable you to build components, which will be reusable across your applications. The book will then provide insights into the techniques of styling React components and optimizing them to make applications faster and more responsive. In the concluding chapters, you’ll discover ways to write tests more effectively and learn how to contribute to React and its ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to tackle any developmental setbacks when working with React. You’ll be able to make your applications more flexible, efficient, and easy to maintain, thereby giving your workflow a boost when it comes to speed, without reducing quality.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Get familiar with the new React features,like context API and React Hooks
• Learn the techniques of styling and optimizing React components
• Make components communicate with each other by applying consolidate patterns
• Use server-side rendering to make applications load faster
• Write a comprehensive set of tests to create robust and maintainable code

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

const Button = React.createClass({
    getInitialState() {
      return {
        text: 'Click me!'
      };
    },
    render() {
      return <button>{this.state.text}</button>;
    }
});

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for web developers who want to increase their understanding of React and apply it to real-life application development. Prior experience with React and JavaScript is assumed.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-14).

Software and Hardware List

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

Related products

• Full-Stack React Projects [Packt] [Amazon]

• Hands-on Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React [Packt] [Amazon]

Get to Know the Author

Carlos Santana Roldán Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 12 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Senior React developer at MindBody Inc. He is the founder of Dev Education, one of the most popular developer communities in Latin America, training people in web technologies such as React, Node.js, GraphQL, and JavaScript in general.

Another book by the author

• React Cookbook

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