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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

Summary

Our journey through performance is finished, and we can now optimize our applications to give users a better UX.

In this chapter, we learned how the reconciliation algorithm works and how React always tries to take the shortest path to apply changes to the DOM. We can also help the library to optimize its job by using the keys.

Once you've found your bottlenecks, you can apply one of the techniques we have seen in this chapter to fix the issue. One of the first tools you can use is to extend PureComponent and use immutable data to make your component re-render only when strictly needed.

Don't forget to avoid the common mistakes that make PureComponent less effective, such as generating new functions inside the render method or using constant as props.

We have learned how refactoring and designing your components structure in the proper way could provide a performance...

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