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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition
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React Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

by Carlos Santana Roldán
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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The container and presentational pattern

In the last chapter, we saw how to take a coupled component and make it reusable step by step. In this section, we will see how to apply a similar pattern to our components to make them cleaner and more maintainable.

React components typically contain a mix of logic and presentation. By logic, we refer to anything that is unrelated to the UI, such as API calls, data manipulation, and event handlers. The presentation is, instead, the part inside the render method where we create the elements to be displayed on the UI.

In React, there is a simple and powerful pattern, known as container and presentational, which we can apply when creating components that help us to separate those two concerns.

Creating ...

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