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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

Using CSS modules

If you feel that inline styles are not a suitable solution for your project and your team, but you still want to keep the styles as close as possible to your components, there is a solution for you, called CSS modules. The CSS modules are CSS files in which all class names and animation names are scoped locally by default. Let's see how we can use them in our projects; but first, we need to configure Webpack.

Webpack 5

Before diving into CSS modules and learning how they work, it is important to understand how they were created and the tools that support it.

In Chapter 2, Cleaning Up Your Code, we looked at how we can write ES6 code and transpile it using Babel and its presets. As soon as the application grows, you may want to split your code base into modules as well.

You can use Webpack or Browserify to divide the application into small modules that you can import whenever you need them, while still creating a big bundle for the browser. These tools are called...

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