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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

You're reading from   Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native Proven techniques and patterns for efficient native mobile development with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994460
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz Mateusz Grzesiukiewicz
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. React Component Patterns 2. View Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Styling Patterns 4. Flux Architecture 5. Store Patterns 6. Data Transfer Patterns 7. Navigation Patterns 8. JavaScript and ECMAScript Patterns 9. Elements of Functional Programming Patterns 10. Managing Dependencies 11. Type Checking Patterns 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to error boundaries

This is quite an overlooked feature that came with React version 16. As you should already know, JavaScript can throw errors. Such errors should not break your app, especially if it is from the financial sector. The regular imperative solution from JavaScript is a try-catch block:

try {
// helloWorld function can potentially throw error
helloWorld();
} catch (error) {
// If helloWorld throws error
// we catch it and handle gracefully
// ...
}

This approach is hard to use with JSX. Hence, the React team developed an alternative solution for React views. It's called Error Boundaries. Any class component can become an ErrorBoundary component, given that it implements the componentDidCatch function:

class AppErrorBoundary extends React.Component {
state = { hasError: false };

componentDidCatch() {
this.setState({ hasError...
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Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native
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ISBN-13: 9781788994460
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