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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Build easy to scale modular applications using the most powerful components and design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464538
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Bertoli Michele Bertoli
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Everything You Should Know About React FREE CHAPTER 2. Clean Up Your Code 3. Create Truly Reusable Components 4. Compose All the Things 5. Proper Data Fetching 6. Write Code for the Browser 7. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 8. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 9. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 10. About Testing and Debugging 11. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 12. Next Steps

Communication between components

Reusing functions is one of our goals as developers, and we have seen how React makes it easy to create reusable components.

Reusable components can be shared across multiple domains of your application to avoid duplication.

Small components with a clean interface can be composed together to create complex applications that are powerful and maintainable at the same time.

Composing React components is pretty straightforward; you just have to include them in the render method:

const Profile = ({ user }) => ( 
  <div> 
    <Picture profileImageUrl={user.profileImageUrl} /> 
    <UserName name={user.name} screenName={user.screenName} /> 
  </div> 
) 
 
Profile.propTypes = { 
  user: React.PropTypes.object, 
}

For example, you can create a Profile component by simply composing a Picture component to display the profile image and a UserName component to display the name and the screen name of the user.

In this way, you can produce...

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