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React Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build and deploy production-ready web applications using standard industry practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789530179
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Hello React!
2. Taking Your First Steps with React FREE CHAPTER 3. Clean Up Your Code 4. Section 2: How React works
5. Creating Truly Reusable Components 6. Compose All the Things 7. Proper Data Fetching 8. Write Code for the Browser 9. Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!
10. Make Your Components Look Beautiful 11. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 12. Improve the Performance of Your Applications 13. About Testing and Debugging 14. React Router 15. Anti-Patterns to be Avoided 16. Deploying to Production 17. Next Steps 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

The container and presentational pattern

In the last chapter, we saw how to take a coupled component and make it reusable step by step. In this section, we will see how to apply a similar pattern to our components to make them cleaner and more maintainable.

React components typically contain a mix of logic and presentation. By logic, we refer to anything that is unrelated to the UI, such as API calls, data manipulation, and event handlers. The presentation is, instead, the part inside the render method where we create the elements to be displayed on the UI.

In React, there is a simple and powerful pattern, known as container and presentational, which we can apply when creating components that help us to separate those two concerns.

Creating well-defined boundaries between logic and presentation not only makes components more reusable, but it provides many other benefits, which...

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