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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

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 has to only be unique among its siblings; it does not have to be unique globally. An item...

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