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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

Recompose


As soon as we become familiar with HoCs, we realize how powerful they are and how we can get the most out of them.

There is a popular library called recompose which provides many useful HoCs and also a way to compose them nicely.

The HoCs that the library offers are small utilities that we can use to wrap our components, moving away some logic from them and making them more dumb and reusable.

Consider that your component is receiving a user object from an API, and this user object has many attributes.

Letting components receive arbitrary objects is not a good practice because it relies on the fact that the component knows the shape of the object and, most importantly, if the object changes, the component breaks.

A better way for a component to receive props from the parent is to define each single property using primitives.

So, we have a Profile component to display username and age; it looks like this:

const Profile = ({ user }) => ( 
  <div> 
    <div>Username...
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