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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

Spreading properties on DOM elements

There is a common practice that has recently been described as an anti-pattern by Dan Abramov; it also triggers a warning in the console when you do it in your React application.

It is a technique that is widely used in the community and I have personally seen it multiple times in real-world projects. We usually spread the properties to the elements to avoid writing every single one manually, which is shown as follows:

<Component {...props} />

This works very well and it gets transpiled into the following code by Babel:

_jsx(Component, props)

However, when we spread properties into a DOM element, we run the risk of adding unknown HTML attributes, which is bad practice.

The problem is not related only to the spread operator; passing non-standard properties one by one leads to the same issues and warnings. Since the spread operator hides the single properties we are spreading, it is even harder to figure out what we are passing to the element.

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