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React Anti-Patterns

You're reading from   React Anti-Patterns Build efficient and maintainable React applications with test-driven development and refactoring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805123972
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Introducing the Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introducing React Anti-Patterns 3. Chapter 2: Understanding React Essentials 4. Chapter 3: Organizing Your React Application 5. Chapter 4: Designing Your React Components 6. Part 2: Embracing Testing Techniques
7. Chapter 5: Testing in React 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Common Refactoring Techniques 9. Chapter 7: Introducing Test-Driven Development with React 10. Part 3: Unveiling Business Logic and Design Patterns
11. Chapter 8: Exploring Data Management in React 12. Chapter 9: Applying Design Principles in React 13. Chapter 10: Diving Deep into Composition Patterns 14. Part 4: Engaging in Practical Implementation
15. Chapter 11: Introducing Layered Architecture in React 16. Chapter 12: Implementing an End-To-End Project 17. Chapter 13: Recapping Anti-Pattern Principles 18. Index 19. Other Book You May Enjoy

Understanding the evolution of a React application

Applications with different sizes require different strategies. For small or one-off projects, you might find that all logic is just written inside React components. You may see one or only a few components in total. The code looks pretty much like HTML, with only some variables or states used to make the page “dynamic,” but overall, the code is easy to understand and change.

As the application grows, and more and more code is added to the code base, without a proper way to organize it, the code base will soon get into an unmaintainable state. This means that even adding small features will be time-consuming as developers need more time to read the code.

In this section, I’ll list several different ways we can structure our React application to make sure our code always remains in a healthy state, making it effortless to add new features and easy to extend or fix existing defects. We’ll start with...

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