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Published inMay 2022
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ISBN-139781803231280
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Adam Boduch
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Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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Roy Derks
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Roy Derks

Roy Derks is a serial start-up CTO, international speaker, and author from the Netherlands. He has been working with React, React Native, and GraphQL since 2016. You might know him from the book “React Projects – Second Edition”, which was released by Packt earlier this year. Over the last few years, he has inspired tens of thousands of developers worldwide through his talks, books, workshops, and courses.
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Mikhail Sakhniuk
Mikhail Sakhniuk
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Mikhail Sakhniuk

Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
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Using the lazy API

There are two pieces involved with using the new lazy() API in React. First, there's bundling components into their own separate files so that they can be downloaded by the browser separately from other parts of the application. Second, once you have created the bundles, you can build React components that are lazy – they don't download anything until the first time they're rendered. Let's look at both of these.

Dynamic imports and bundles

The code examples in this book use the create-react-app tooling for creating bundles. The nice thing about this approach is that you don't have to maintain any bundle configuration. Instead, bundles are created for you automatically, based on how you import your modules. If you're using the import statement everywhere, your app will be downloaded all at once in one bundle. When your app gets bigger, there will likely be features that some users never use or don't use as frequently...

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Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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Roy Derks

Roy Derks is a serial start-up CTO, international speaker, and author from the Netherlands. He has been working with React, React Native, and GraphQL since 2016. You might know him from the book “React Projects – Second Edition”, which was released by Packt earlier this year. Over the last few years, he has inspired tens of thousands of developers worldwide through his talks, books, workshops, and courses.
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Mikhail Sakhniuk

Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
Read more about Mikhail Sakhniuk