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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build and deploy production-ready web applications using standard industry practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530179
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Hello React! FREE CHAPTER
2. Taking Your First Steps with React 3. Clean Up Your Code 4. Section 2: How React works
5. Creating Truly Reusable Components 6. Compose All the Things 7. Proper Data Fetching 8. Write Code for the Browser 9. Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!
10. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 11. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 12. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 13. About Testing and Debugging 14. React Router 15. Anti-Patterns to be Avoided 16. Deploying to Production 17. Next Steps 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating Truly Reusable Components

To create truly reusable components, we have to understand the different possibilities that React gives us for defining components, and when it is better to choose one or another. A new type of component has been introduced in React that lets us declare a component as a stateless function. It is crucial to understand this component and learn when and why it should be used.

You may have already utilized the internal state of components, but you may still be unclear about when it should be used and the problems it can cause us. The best way to learn is by looking at examples, and we will do that by starting from a component that serves a single purpose and transforming it into a reusable one.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The different methods we can follow to create React components, and when we should use one rather than...
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