React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. About Packt
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3. Copyright and Credits
   1. React Design Patterns and Best Practices Second Edition
4. Contributors
   1. About the author
   2. About the reviewer
   3. Packt is searching for authors like you
5. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Download the example code files
      2. Download the color images
      3. Conventions used
   4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
6. Section 1: Hello React!
7. Taking Your First Steps with React
   1. Declarative programming
   2. React elements
   3. Unlearning everything
   4. Common misconceptions
   5. Summary
8. Clean Up Your Code
   1. JSX
      1. Babel 7
      2. Hello, World!
      3. DOM elements and React components
      4. Props
      5. Children
      6. Differences with HTML
         1. Attributes
         2. Style
         3. Root
         4. Spaces
         5. Boolean attributes
      7. Spread attributes
      8. JavaScript templating
      9. Common patterns
         1. Multi-line
         2. Multi-properties
         3. Conditionals
         4. Loops
         5. Control statements
         6. Sub-rendering
   2. Code style
      1. EditorConfig
         1. Configuring EditorConfig
      2. ESLint
         1. Installation
         2. Configuration
         3. Git hooks
         4. React plugin
         5. Airbnb React/JSX style guide
   3. The basics of functional programming
      1. First-class objects
      2. Purity
      3. Immutability
      4. Currying
      5. Composition
      6. FP and user interfaces
   4. Summary
9. Section 2: How React works
10. Creating Truly Reusable Components
    1. Creating classes
       1. The createClass factory
       2. Extending React.Component
       3. The main differences
          1. Props
          2. State
          3. Autobinding
       4. Stateless components
          1. Props and context
          2. The this keyword
          3. State
          4. Life cycle
          5. Refs and event handlers
          6. Optimization
          7. Layout components
    2. The state
       1. External libraries
       2. How it works
       3. Asynchronous
       4. Using the state
          1. Derivables
          2. The render method
    3. React hooks
    4. Prop types
       1. React Docgen
    5. Reusable components
    6. Fragments
    7. Summary
11. Compose All the Things
    1. Communication between components
       1. Children
    2. The container and presentational pattern
    3. Mixins
    4. Higher order components
    5. Recompose
       1. Context
    6. FunctionAsChild
    7. Summary
12. Proper Data Fetching
    1. Data flow
       1. Child-parent communication (callbacks)
       2. Common parent
    2. Data fetching
    3. React-refetch
    4. Context API
    5. Summary
13. Write Code for the Browser
    1. Forms
       1. Uncontrolled components
       2. Controlled components
       3. JSON schema
    2. Handling events
    3. Refs
    4. Animations
       1. React motion
    5. Scalable Vector Graphics
    6. Summary
14. Section 3: Performance, Improvements and Production!
15. Make Your Components Look Beautiful
    1. CSS in JavaScript
    2. Inline styles
    3. Radium
    4. CSS modules
       1. Webpack 4
       2. Setting up a project
       3. Locally scoped CSS
       4. Atomic CSS modules
       5. React CSS modules
    5. Styled components
    6. Summary
16. Server-Side Rendering for Fun and Profit
    1. Universal applications
    2. Reasons to implement SSR
       1. SEO
       2. A common code base
       3. Better performance
       4. Don't underestimate the complexity
    3. A basic example
    4. A data fetching example
    5. Next.js
    6. Summary
17. Improve the Performance of Your Applications
    1. Reconciliation
    2. Keys
    3. Optimization techniques
       1. shouldComponentUpdate
       2. Stateless functional components
    4. Common solutions
       1. Why did you update?
       2. Creating functions inside the render method
       3. Constants props
       4. Refactoring and good design
    5. Tools and libraries
       1. Immutability
       2. Babel plugins
    6. Summary
18. About Testing and Debugging
    1. The benefits of testing
    2. Painless JavaScript testing with Jest
    3. Testing events
    4. React DevTools
    5. Redux DevTools
    6. Summary
19. React Router
    1. Installation and configuration
    2. Creating our sections
    3. Adding parameters to the routes
    4. Summary
20. Anti-Patterns to be Avoided
    1. Initializing the state using properties
    2. Mutating the state
    3. Using indexes as a key
    4. Spreading properties on DOM elements
    5. Summary
21. Deploying to Production
    1. Creating our first Digital Ocean Droplet
       1. Signing up to Digital Ocean
       2. Creating our first Droplet
       3. Installing Node.js
       4. Configuring Git and GitHub
       5. Turning off our droplet
    2. Configuring nginx, PM2, and a domain
       1. Installing and configuring nginx
       2. Setting up a reverse proxy server
       3. Adding a domain to our droplet
    3. Implementing CircleCI for continuous integration
       1. Adding an SSH key to CircleCI
       2. Configuring CircleCI
       3. Creating ENV variables in CircleCI
    4. Summary
22. Next Steps
    1. Contributing to React
    2. Distributing your code
    3. Publishing an npm package
    4. Summary
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