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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

Scalable Vector Graphics

Last but not least, one of the most interesting techniques we can apply in the browser to draw icons and graphs is Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

SVG is great because it is a declarative way of describing vectors and it fits perfectly with the purposes of React.

We used to use icon fonts to create icons, but they have well-known problems, with the first being that they are not accessible. It is also pretty hard to position icon fonts with CSS, and they do not always look beautiful in all browsers. These are the reasons we should prefer SVG for our web applications.

From a React point of view, it does not make any difference if we output a div or an SVG element from the render method, and this is what makes it so powerful.

We tend also to choose SVGs because we can easily modify them at runtime using CSS and JavaScript, which makes them an excellent candidate...

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