React Design Patterns and Best Practices: Design, build & deploy production-ready web apps using standard industry practices

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