React in Depth

4 Better code maintenance with developer tooling

This chapter covers

• Writing error-free code with linting
• Increasing productivity with formatting
• Making components more robust with property constraints
• Debugging React applications using developer tools

Code quality degrades over time—unfortunately, a hard fact of our chosen profession. As our web applications grow more complicated, maintaining code quality becomes harder and harder. This is especially the case for multideveloper projects, in which different people invariably do things in different ways, but it is also a problem for single-person projects. If you are working on the same codebase over time, you will pick up new ways of doing things, and these ways will most likely differ ...