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React 16 Tooling
React 16 Tooling

React 16 Tooling: Master essential cutting-edge tools, such as create-react-app, Jest, and Flow

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By Adam Boduch , Christopher Pitt
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React 16 Tooling

Chapter 1. Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem

When people hear React, they think of a focused library used for efficiently rendering user interfaces. When people hear framework, they think of a large system that might have a few useful tools within it but is otherwise a bloated mess. They're correct about frameworks for the most part, but saying that React isn't a framework is a little misleading.

If you take React out of the box and try to do any meaningful development with it, you'll promptly hit a wall. This is because instead of being distributed as a monolithic framework, React is better described as a core library surrounded by an ecosystem of tools.

The advantage of a framework is that you can install the core library along with the supported tooling in one shot. The downside is that every project is different and you can't be sure what tools you need versus those that you won't. Another advantage to having an ecosystem of tools is that they can evolve independently from one another; you don't have to wait for a new release of the entire framework to get an enhancement for one of the tools that your project uses.

The aim of this book is to show you how to best utilize the tooling ecosystem surrounding React. In this chapter, you'll be introduced to the concept of React tooling by learning the following:

  • React without tooling
  • Introduction to tooling
  • The tools covered in this book
  • Deciding which tools are needed for your project
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  • • Each chapter presents meta-development solutions to help React developers
  • • The tools used are presented in a practical, solution-oriented approach with no fluff
  • • The chapters are arranged in a logical order that mirrors a typical React development workflow, but you are free to tweak the approaches discussed to fit your own unique style

Description

React 16 Tooling covers the most important tools, utilities, and libraries that every React developer needs to know — in detail. As React has grown, the amazing toolset around it has also grown, adding features and enhancing the development workflow. Each of these essential tools is presented in a practical manner and in a logical order mirroring the development workflow. These tools will make your development life simpler and happier, enabling you to create better and more performant apps. Adam starts with a hand-picked selection of the best tools for the React 16 ecosystem. For starters, there’s the create-react-app utility that’s officially supported by the React team. Not only does this tool bootstrap your React project for you, it also provides a consistent and stable framework to build upon. The premise is that when you don’t have to think about meta development work, more focus goes into the product itself. Other React tools follow this same approach to automating and improving your development life. Jest makes unit testing quicker. Flow makes catching errors easier. Docker containers make deployment in a stack simpler. Storybook makes developing components straightforward. ESLint makes writing standardized code faster. The React DevTools plugin makes debugging a cinch. React 16 Tooling clears away the barriers so you can focus on developing the good parts. In this book, we’ll look at each of these powerful tools in detail, showing you how to build the perfect React ecosystem to develop your apps within.

What you will learn

  • • Bootstrap a React application using create-react-app
  • • Isolate React component development using Storybook
  • • Write effective unit tests for your React components using Jest
  • • Ensure that your component code is to standard using ESLint
  • • Use browser extensions and built-in component instrumentation to debug React applications
  • • Enable type safety in React components with Flowtype
  • • Deploy React applications inside a Docker container as part of a larger application stack

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Table of Contents

18 Chapters
Title Page Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Copyright and Credits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Contributors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Creating a Personalized React Development Ecosystem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Efficiently Bootstrapping React Applications with Create React App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Development Mode and Mastering Hot Reloading Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Optimizing Test-Driven React Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Streamlining Development and Refactoring with Type-Safe React Components Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Enforcing Code Quality to Improve Maintainability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Isolating Components with Storybook Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Debugging Components in the Browser Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Instrumenting Application State with Redux Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Building and Deploying Static React Sites with Gatsby Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Building and Deploying React Applications with Docker Containers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Another Book You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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