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As the preceding introduction explains, we have a lot of functionality to create in this chapter. In order to keep it all in one place, without cluttering up our App.js, we will create a separate JavaScript class to manage everything to do with notifications. This is a pattern I really like with React, to extract functionality not attached to any one component. In our src/ folder, next to our components folder, let's create a folder called resources, and within that, a file called NotificationResource.js.

The basic outline of our class looks like this:

export default class NotificationResource {

}

We create a JavaScript class and export it.

Note

For those unfamiliar with JavaScript classes (especially for those familiar with classes in other languages), I encourage you to read the MDN article explaining the basics, at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes.

Let’s import it in our App.js before we forget:

import NotificationResource from...