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React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications with React by leveraging industry-best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233109
Length 524 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Preface 1. Taking Your First Steps with React 2. Introducing TypeScript FREE CHAPTER 3. Cleaning Up Your Code 4. Exploring Popular Composition Patterns 5. Writing Code for the Browser 6. Making Your Components Look Beautiful 7. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 8. React Hooks 9. React Router 10. React 18 New Features 11. Managing Data 12. Server-Side Rendering 13. Understanding GraphQL with a Real Project 14. MonoRepo Architecture 15. Improving the Performance of Your Applications 16. Testing and Debugging 17. Deploying to Production 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Using keys

Children possess keys and these keys are used by React to match children between the subsequent tree and the original tree. The tree conversion can be made efficient by adding a key to our previous example:

<ul>
  <li key="2018">Carlos</li>
  <li key="2019">Javier</li>
</ul>
<ul>
  <li key="2017">Emmanuel</li>
  <li key="2018">Carlos</li>
  <li key="2019">Javier</li>
</ul>

React now knows that the 2017 key is the new one and that the 2018 and 2019 keys have just moved.

Finding a key is not hard. The element that you will be displaying might already have a unique ID. So, the key can just come from your data:

<li key={element.id}>{element.title}</li>

A new ID can be added to your model by you, or the key can be generated by some parts of the content. The key must only be unique among its siblings; it does not...

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