8 Tips For Getting Better At React

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React makes it painless to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes.
Declarative views make your code more predictable and easier to debug.

Build encapsulated components that manage their own state, then compose them to make complex UIs.
Since component logic is written in JavaScript instead of templates, you can easily pass rich data through your app and keep state out of the DOM.

We don't make assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, so you can develop new features in React without rewriting existing code.
React can also render on the server using Node and power mobile apps using React Native.

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The 8 tips in order.

1. Setup Linting @ 1:00
2. Set propTypes & defaultProps @ 4:15
3. Know when make a new component @ 6:00
4. component vs pureComponent vs Functional Stateless Component @ 8:14
5. React DevTools @ 11:27
6. Inline Conditionals @ 12:30
7. Use Snippets @ 15:00
8. Learn how React works @ 16:25

[ubibecauseofai]

Great video - this was perfect for someone like me who is bored with the beginner tutorials but who isn’t quite knowledgable enough to be considered an expert.

[DEVDerr]

9. Use Typescript and replace propTypes with interfaces :)

[luisrodriguezcastro]

I am very very glad you create your themes based on Wes Bos theme. Yours and Wes Bos's are the only themes that don't make my eyes hurt. Great video.

[cismuz]

We want more! :)

What I am missing is a tool that would show me a tree of components of my application in graphical form. You know, I have 50-60 components and I start to forget which components was related to which. So a tool that would generate me a road plan of my work.

[DaveCool]

Good stuff Scott! I'd also recommend prettier. I just switched to it and it is LIFE CHANGING. Set it up to format on save and you'll never want to code JavaScript without it again.

[hamzahajji]

14:20 line 56 the right syntac is condition ? exp : exp2

[SowedCastelli]

Thank you for the great pointers. Man, your audio setup is amazing!

[AlistairCerio]

In setting propTypes, how do you handle props from Redux? These are props from mapStateToProps & mapDispatchToProps? Do you add them to propTypes everytime?

[Skywalkerful]

Thanks for the informative video, what's the theme of vs code you're using?

[yashone]

eventually, there will be some files with long lines of code? Or not? extracting component logic for reusability is really tricky

[etayluz]

Regarding the use of inline conditional statement to render a component (minute 12:35), isn't this going to insert and remove the component from the DOM in real time? Isn't it better to hide and show using CSS's style={display: 'none'} from a performance point of you? I'm not disputing the merit of inline conditionals - just that in this specific use case it does not seem optimal.

[thatguynar]

What plugin did you use to show the compressed file size?

[NoelTorres_noletorious]

its crazy to think how far react has changed since 2017.

[JasonSchoeman]

Nice video, gave me very good tips. Thanks a lot.

[snugglepuff]

Wow these are some really great tips! What color theme is that?

[Zombieskelper]

What is putting the sizes of the imports in your file?

[alekseikorkh]

Hi Scott.
Thanks for the great video !:)

[manuelpascual]

I use native javascript default param values instead of default prop types. Anyone else following this approach? It saves me the headache of declaring another object and obviously lines of code 🤓

[derocknc]

what font are you using to have the arrow function connect like that?