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React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   React 17 Design Patterns and Best Practices Design, build, and deploy production-ready web applications using industry-standard practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560444
Length 394 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello React!
2. Taking Your First Steps with React FREE CHAPTER 3. Cleaning Up Your Code 4. How React Works
5. React Hooks 6. Exploring Popular Composition Patterns 7. Understanding GraphQL with a Real Project 8. Managing Data 9. Writing Code for the Browser 10. Performance, Improvements, and Production!
11. Making Your Components Look Beautiful 12. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit 13. Improving the Performance of Your Applications 14. Testing and Debugging 15. React Router 16. Anti-Patterns to Be Avoided 17. Deploying to Production 18. Next Steps 19. About Packt 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Communicating components

Reusing functions is one of our goals as developers, and in the previous chapter, we saw how React makes it easy to create reusable components. Reusable components can be shared across multiple domains of your application to avoid duplication.

Small components with a clean interface can be composed together to create complex applications that are powerful and maintainable at the same time.

Composing React components is pretty straightforward; you just have to include them in the render:

const Profile = ({ user }) => ( 
<>
<Picture profileImageUrl={user.profileImageUrl} />
<UserName name={user.name} screenName={user.screenName} />
</>
)

For example, you can create a Profile component by simply composing a Picture component to display the profile image and a UserName component to display the name and the screen name of the user.

In this way, you can produce new parts of the user interface very quickly, writing only a few lines...

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