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Test-Driven React
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Test-Driven React

by Trevor Burnham
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The Controllable Pattern

Components in React are commonly described as controlled or uncontrolled with respect to some variable. If that variable is passed down to it through props, the component is controlled. If that variable is managed as state, the component is uncontrolled.

In its original incarnation, Carousel was uncontrolled with respect to slideIndex. With the HasIndex refactoring, the core of Carousel is now controlled, but the overall component—the version of Carousel that this library’s users will consume—is still uncontrolled. Nothing outside of Carousel can modify its slideIndex, because that variable is kept in state.

Suppose you removed the HasIndex wrapper to make Carousel controlled. That would make the component more versatile, ...

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