React in patterns

📚 A free book that talks about design patterns/techniques used while developing with React.

Book

• GitBook
• Web
• PDF
• Mobi
• ePub

Translations

• 简体中文

Content

• In brief

Foundation

• Communication
  • Input
  • Output
• Event handlers
• Composition
  • Using React's children API
  • Passing a child as a prop
  • Higher-order component
  • Function as a children, render prop
• Controlled and uncontrolled inputs
• Presentational and container components

Data flow

• One direction data flow
• Flux
  • Flux architecture and its main characteristics
  • Implementing a Flux architecture
• Redux
  • Redux architecture and its main characteristics
  • Simple counter app using Redux

MISC

• Dependency injection
  • Using React's context (prior v. 16.3)
  • Using React's context (v. 16.3 and above)
  • Using the module system
• Styling
  • The good old CSS class
  • Inline styling
  • CSS modules
  • Styled-components
• Integration of third-party libraries
• React and separation of concerns

Source code

The code samples used in the book are available here.

Other resources

• React Design principles
• Airbnb React/JSX Style Guide
• React patterns at Planning Center Online
• React patterns by Michael Chan
• React patterns, techniques, tips and tricks

Building the book

yarn install && yarn build

To make the ebook generating possible install calibre and ln -s /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/local/bin/.