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Love how this article breaks down the essential mindset for new React developers. Thinking in components, embracing declarative programming, and understanding state and props are key to mastering React. A great guide for anyone starting out!
Welcome to the community and thanks for reading Dear Mark π
Moments ago, I read from this platform how complex React had made a simple workflow.
And now, I read about approaches to take to get the best out of React.
Isn't Life beautiful π?
It's just feel like react is a two edged sword π‘οΈ ah
Thanks to all that reacted to this post.
For the context, I'm starting to learn react and would appreciate if I can get an accountability partner here.
Nice introduction, but puts an emphasis on prop drilling and local state, and doesn't mention context at all. In your example, you have the logged-in status as local state, which it would never be. That would be determined by a context provider in the app component so you don't need to pass this value as a prop to every component in the tree
True, but it is an article for beginners. Context or State stores are a more advanced concept and getting your head around useEffect is hard enough for newbies.
Maybe a couple of lines about separating Application state (dark theme, is logged in, side menu open etc) from Data state (list of items, form contents failed validation l, data submission pending) would help.
Yes, you're right Aaron!
Would be nice (but maybe a hassle at the same time) to talk a bit more about React Server Components, server actions and all the new-releases coming in React 19. The industry is going in the direction of involving the server and the sooner the better to address those different mental models.
Without a doubt, the mindset is a major determinant whether youβll write a good React code or not. Thinking in components leads the pack just as you have mentioned. As much as possible break down repetitive features into independent component and employ props to customize for different scenarios.
This is an amazing article.
This is a great summation of the mindset needed to be a competent React Dev.
What is becoming more important now, is the ability to know how to think in server and client components and composing UI this way.
This is an added layer of complexity that brings with it the need for careful thought about how state is managed (e.g. using query params instead of local state) and the flow of data. I guess that's an entirely different article!
This is a very concise and significant article. These are very essential in the journey of a React Developer. And, these aren't applicable to only new developers but existing ones, as well, who aren't following the conventional way.
Thanks for the article.
Modern React developers should drop the distinction between state and props. Every piece of data in your app is state. Props is just short for properties that we all know from basic javascript functions (React components are just javascript functions). Props are used to pass state down to child components. React developers should think about data flow in this regard, particularly which components should manage the data and how far it should flow down the tree. Btw uni-directional data flow is just theory of how react works when rendering. In practice there are several ways to pass state up the component tree, for example using React context.
I'm tired of using React JS if the application is too big when I run it and the compilation process takes a long time, besides the complexity of the code which makes my head spin, especially if I want to change the code, there are no more dependency problems which are often depreciated, I throw away React JS so I use C# .Net which is easier.
Yeah, use Vite and enjoy life.
Try React with Vite, the compilation is lightning fast
Love how this article breaks down the essential mindset for new React developers.I work in a react native app development company in uae and personally Thinking in components, embracing declarative programming, and understanding state and props are key to mastering React.
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This is also an important mindset, as you already know what the result should be, so write it down and then develop it until the expected result is shown.
A comprehensive overview
I was looking for articles like this for a long time but I hardly found so detailed guide
Though Many beginner wont understand these concept but 1.Think in Components can be understand by every beginner. I want to mention about 1 little thing about this section. Think SVG as a component too if you are using RAW SVG file. Pretty sure most of the beginner wont even think of it.
Very good article :)
-- The points 1-5 are really good, and a React developer needs to: become aware of them. Many developers are not.
-- Then 6-7 are just basics/fundamentals which are not optional, one cannot "not use" them for any real React programming. They kinda dilute this post, imho ;o)
Composition Over Inheritance
Can you please explain more clearly, where is inheritance used in function components as you're using function approach to explain declarative approach
Thanks for the great post!!!
Thank you
Awesome articleπ.
How would you advice a developer on the topic of testing. Whether it's end-to-end testing or writing unit tests
A very good piece. Just getting the hang of React, this resource goes a long way to help me understand basic React principle
Hello.
Check out this Full-Stack React framework for Deno. It's really cool:
faster_react
Well organized framework.
nice article
perfect thank you
How would you tackle coupling vs cohesion problem in React?
Components can be break down but if we overuse, there might disrupt the cohesion level of the code
New React devs should flee while they still can, embrace Vue.js and see that everything is equal or better with it.
Perfect summary for React course that I took in one month
Nice read
Currently learning React, needed a brief explanation of what is going on, where to start from. This helped me a lot. Thanks
appreciated
A straight to the point article.
I recommend following this guideline to any new React developer.
I wish I had these advice when I started, short and right to the point, Thanks brother,
Great summary!
Good Read.
Well written article. I really liked how to part. Terminologies are commonly known but approach is important.
insightful article!
Thanks for the article. I especially enjoyed the flow of the content.
Here is a Love react for your React post.
Well documented article, keep sharing with the community
I mostly use Nextjs for my projects because it's far easier to work there. Most of these ones could be for any framework imo.
Its a refresher to read this kind of article
This is really amazing
It all makes sense now that I have some experience, it took me almost a year to transition from vanilla javascript to react. Nice piece!
Big fan of testing when components are following the SRP, just better code overall :)
Wow! great material now I can reference this to my junior students.
I love this article!
Thank you for this great article.
I've primarily been a BE developer and delving into FE with React 18 (only now). This has been the most clear and consise explanation I have come across.
Many thanks.
Nice overview of the most important concepts beginners should know!
I like how this article can be used as guidelines when learning react and help keep focus on important stuff. Thanks a lot for this one!
great