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Nwanguma Victor
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How to structure methods and functions in a React component

Methods in components could be organized using comments. Common usecases can be broken down into the following comment headers.

  1. // STATES
  2. // ONMOUNT
  3. // WATCHERS
  4. // METHODS
  5. // COMPUTED

comment headers

Conclusion

  • The name of a variable or function should tell you what it is and how it is used.

  • Comments can lie. They can be wrong to begin with, or they can be originally accurate and then become outdated over time as the related code changes.

  • Comments can often be avoided by using clearly named variables and extracting sections of code into clearly named functions.

  • Comments that describe what a method does, what arguments it takes, and what it returns are often redundant at best and misleading at worst.

References

In Defense of Clean Code

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