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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build and deploy production-ready web applications using standard industry practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530179
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Hello React!
2. Taking Your First Steps with React FREE CHAPTER 3. Clean Up Your Code 4. Section 2: How React works
5. Creating Truly Reusable Components 6. Compose All the Things 7. Proper Data Fetching 8. Write Code for the Browser 9. Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!
10. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 11. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 12. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 13. About Testing and Debugging 14. React Router 15. Anti-Patterns to be Avoided 16. Deploying to Production 17. Next Steps 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Radium

One of the first libraries that was created to solve the problems of inline styles we encountered in the previous section is Radium. It is maintained by the great developers at Formidable Labs, and it is still one of the most popular solutions.

In this section, we will look at how Radium works, which problems it solves, and why it is a great library to use in conjunction with React for styling components.

We are going to create a very simple button, similar to the one we built in the example earlier in this chapter.

We will start with a basic button without styling, and we will add some basic styling, as well as pseudo-classes and media queries so that we can learn about the main features of the library.

The button we will start with is created as follows:

  const Button = () => <button>Click me!</button>;

First, we have to install Radium using npm:

  npm...
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