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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

Chapter 5. Proper Data Fetching

The goal of this chapter is to show the different data fetching patterns that we can put in place in a React application.

To find the best strategy, we have to clearly understand how the data flows within a tree of components in React.

It is important to know how the parent can communicate with its children and the other way around. It is also crucial to understand how unconnected siblings can share their data.

We will see some real-world examples of data fetching, transforming a base component into a well-structured one using HoCs.

Finally, we will see how existing libraries such as react-refetch can save us a lot of time by providing the core data fetching functionalities we need.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The Unidirectional Data Flow of React and how it can make our applications easier to reason about
  • How a child can communicate with its parent using callbacks
  • The way two siblings can share data through their common parent...
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