Recapping Anti-Pattern Principles

In this short final chapter, we’ll briefly revisit the crucial insights from the book and furnish additional resources for you to delve deeper into the realm of React and software design.

The primary objective of this book was to unearth common anti-patterns often encountered in React code bases, especially within large-scale React applications. We delved into potential remedies and techniques to rectify these issues. The examples throughout the narrative were drawn either from my prior projects or are related to domains with which developers are likely to be familiar – such as shopping carts, user profiles, and network requests, to name a few.

I championed a step-by-step and incremental delivery approach, guiding you from an initial, less-than-ideal implementation toward a polished version, making one small improvement at a time. We embarked on organizing a typical React application, ventured into the realm of frontend testing...