Hands-On Design Patterns with React Native

Establishing conventions

Whenever you build a big project, relying on the developer's own judgement, like in the previous section, may not be enough. The inconsistency of approaches taken by different tech leads may quickly escalate and lead to tens of development hours being lost on exploring a code jungle.

If this sounds to you like a foreign problem, I can promise that in code bases with hundreds of developers working simultaneously every day, it is a very important pattern to establish clear guidelines and conventions.

Let's have a look at a few examples:

• Linter: Takes care of the code appearance guidelines and enforces them automatically. It may also enforce certain usage patterns and favor certain options over others if there is a ...