Exploring Popular Composition Patterns

In this chapter, we will learn how to make components communicate with each other effectively, which is a crucial part of building complex React applications using small, testable, and maintainable components. By mastering the popular composition patterns and tools in React, you will be able to take control of every single part of your application and build scalable and extensible software.

Let’s dive in and explore how we can leverage these patterns and tools to build better React applications. We will cover the following topics:

• How components communicate with each other using props and children
• The container and presentational patterns and how they can make our code more maintainable
• What higher-order components (HOCs) are and how, thanks to them, we can structure our applications in a better way
• What the function of the child component pattern is and what its benefits are