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React for Real
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React for Real

by Ludovico Fischer
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
120 pages
2h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 3Create a Production Build

Many applications that rely on sophisticated JavaScript components fail to live up to their potential because they load slowly. Here, you’ll learn how to spare your own creations from this fate.

Let’s look at the word counter we’ve built in the previous two chapters. We need four network requests: one to download React, one to download ReactDOM, one to download Babel, and one for the word counter itself. Loading speed is critical for user satisfaction,[8] but people can’t start using the app until the last file downloads.

As an application grows, it’s tempting to split the code across multiple files so we can navigate the project more easily as we modify things. For example, we might place the SaveManager ...

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