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React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React 18 Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications with React by leveraging industry-best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233109
Length 524 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Preface 1. Taking Your First Steps with React 2. Introducing TypeScript FREE CHAPTER 3. Cleaning Up Your Code 4. Exploring Popular Composition Patterns 5. Writing Code for the Browser 6. Making Your Components Look Beautiful 7. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 8. React Hooks 9. React Router 10. React 18 New Features 11. Managing Data 12. Server-Side Rendering 13. Understanding GraphQL with a Real Project 14. MonoRepo Architecture 15. Improving the Performance of Your Applications 16. Testing and Debugging 17. Deploying to Production 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Using React DevTools

When testing in the console is not enough, and we want to inspect our application while it is running inside the browser, we can use React DevTools.

The installation adds a tab to the Chrome DevTools called React, where you can inspect the rendered tree of components and check which properties they have received and what their state is at a particular point in time.

Props and states can be read, and they can be changed in real time to trigger updates in the UI and see the results straight away. This is a must-have tool, and in the most recent versions, it has a new feature that can be enabled by checking the Trace React Updates checkbox.

When this functionality is enabled, we can use our application and see which components get updated when we perform a particular action...

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