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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications using industry-standard practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560444
Length 394 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello React!
2. Taking Your First Steps with React FREE CHAPTER 3. Cleaning Up Your Code 4. How React Works
5. React Hooks 6. Exploring Popular Composition Patterns 7. Understanding GraphQL with a Real Project 8. Managing Data 9. Writing Code for the Browser 10. Performance, Improvements, and Production!
11. Making Your Components Look Beautiful 12. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 13. Improving the Performance of Your Applications 14. Testing and Debugging 15. React Router 16. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 17. Deploying to Production 18. Next Steps 19. About Packt 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the useReducer Hook

You probably have some experience of using Redux (react-redux) with class components, and if that is the case, then you will understand how useReducer works. The concepts are basically the same: actions, reducers, dispatch, store, and state. Even if, in general, it seems very similar to react-redux, they have some differences. The main difference is that react-redux provides middleware and wrappers such as thunk, sagas, and many more besides, while useReducer just gives you a dispatch method that you can use to dispatch plain objects as actions. Also, useReducer does not have a store by default; instead, you can create one using useContext, but this is just reinventing the wheel.

Let's create a basic application to understand how useReducer works. You can start by creating a new React app:

create-react-app reducer --template typescript

Then, as always, you can delete all files in your src folder except App.tsx and index.tsx to start a brand-new application...

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