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React 16 Tooling

React 16 Tooling: Master essential cutting-edge tools, such as create-react-app, Jest, and Flow

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React 16 Tooling

Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App

The first React tool you'll learn about in this book is Create React App. It is a command-line utility that helps you, surprisingly, create a React application. This might sound like something that you shouldn't need much help doing, but when you use this tool, there's a lot of configuration that you no longer have to think about. In this chapter, you'll learn:

  • Installing the Create React App tool on your system
  • Bootstraping the creation of your React app
  • What packages are installed when you create a new application
  • The directory organization and files created with your application

Installing Create React App

The first step is installing Create React App, which is an npm package: create-react-app. This package should be installed globally because it installs a command on your system that's used to create your React projects. In other words, create-react-app isn't actually part of your React project—it's used to initialize your React project.

Here's how you can install Create React App globally:

$ npm install -g create-react-app

Notice the -g flag in the command—this makes sure that the create-react-app command is installed globally. Once the installation is complete, you can make sure that the command is good to go by running the following:

$ create-react-app -V

> 1.4.1

Now you're ready to use this tool to create your first React app!

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to install the Create React App tool on your system. Create React App is the tool of choice for bootstrapping modern React applications. The goal of Create React App is to have developers go from nothing to creating React components in minimal time.

Once this tool was installed, you created your first React app using it. The only piece of configuration you had to provide was the application name. Once the tool finished installing dependencies and creating boilerplate files and directories, you were ready to start writing code.

Then, we looked at react-scripts and the dependencies that this package takes care of for you. You were then taken on a whirlwind tour of the overall structure of the application that was created for you.

In the following chapter, we'll start developing some React components. To do this, we'll fire up the...

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Key benefits

  • • Each chapter presents meta-development solutions to help React developers
  • • The tools used are presented in a practical, solution-oriented approach with no fluff
  • • The chapters are arranged in a logical order that mirrors a typical React development workflow, but you are free to tweak the approaches discussed to fit your own unique style

Description

React 16 Tooling covers the most important tools, utilities, and libraries that every React developer needs to know — in detail. As React has grown, the amazing toolset around it has also grown, adding features and enhancing the development workflow. Each of these essential tools is presented in a practical manner and in a logical order mirroring the development workflow. These tools will make your development life simpler and happier, enabling you to create better and more performant apps. Adam starts with a hand-picked selection of the best tools for the React 16 ecosystem. For starters, there’s the create-react-app utility that’s officially supported by the React team. Not only does this tool bootstrap your React project for you, it also provides a consistent and stable framework to build upon. The premise is that when you don’t have to think about meta development work, more focus goes into the product itself. Other React tools follow this same approach to automating and improving your development life. Jest makes unit testing quicker. Flow makes catching errors easier. Docker containers make deployment in a stack simpler. Storybook makes developing components straightforward. ESLint makes writing standardized code faster. The React DevTools plugin makes debugging a cinch. React 16 Tooling clears away the barriers so you can focus on developing the good parts. In this book, we’ll look at each of these powerful tools in detail, showing you how to build the perfect React ecosystem to develop your apps within.

Who is this book for?

This book is for React developers of any skill level who want to make their lives easier. It helps to have some familiarity with React, but if you are an experienced web developer looking at React, then this book will show you how to build a resilient toolset around you before you begin.

What you will learn

  • • Bootstrap a React application using create-react-app
  • • Isolate React component development using Storybook
  • • Write effective unit tests for your React components using Jest
  • • Ensure that your component code is to standard using ESLint
  • • Use browser extensions and built-in component instrumentation to debug React applications
  • • Enable type safety in React components with Flowtype
  • • Deploy React applications inside a Docker container as part of a larger application stack

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Development Mode and Mastering Hot Reloading Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Optimizing Test-Driven React Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Streamlining Development and Refactoring with Type-Safe React Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Enforcing Code Quality to Improve Maintainability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Isolating Components with Storybook Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Debugging Components in the Browser Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Instrumenting Application State with Redux Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building and Deploying Static React Sites with Gatsby Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building and Deploying React Applications with Docker Containers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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