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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Build easy to scale modular applications using the most powerful components and design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464538
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Bertoli Michele Bertoli
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Everything You Should Know About React FREE CHAPTER 2. Clean Up Your Code 3. Create Truly Reusable Components 4. Compose All the Things 5. Proper Data Fetching 6. Write Code for the Browser 7. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 8. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 9. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 10. About Testing and Debugging 11. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 12. Next Steps

Prop types


Our goal is to write truly reusable components and to do that we have to define their interface in the clearest possible way.

If we want our components to be reused across the application, it is crucial to make sure that our components and their parameters are well-defined and straightforward to use.

With React, there is a powerful tool that lets us express, in a very simple way, the name of the props that a component expects to receive and some validation rules for each one of them.

The rules relate to the type of the property as well as to whether the property is optional or required. There is also the option to write custom validation functions.

Let's start with a very simple example:

const Button = ({ text }) => <button>{text}</button> 
 
Button.propTypes = { 
  text: React.PropTypes.string, 
} 

In the snippet above, we created a stateless functional component that receives a text prop of type string.

Great, now every developer that comes...

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