React Way Notes: 2019-09-02

[justinbmeyer]

General Guidelines

• Overall, the guidelines are good ... but I'm not sure they are about "react".
• Is type checking shown?

[justinbmeyer]

State management

Managing state via hooks directly in the component

• I still think a full overview of hooks would be useful here. I can't imagine a training w/o it. Most react developers have probably never used hooks.
• This needs an exercise, possibly multiple.
• Examples should be codepen-able.

Custom Hooks and Hook / Provider Pairs

• The primary impetus for doing this is due to the complexity of the logic. ... Why should complex logic be pulled out? It's not the complexity that drives pulling out "provider pairs", it's reuse right? I think a pagination model might be a good example.

function paginate(limit) {
  const [ count, setCount ] = useState();

  return {
    next(){ ... },
    prev(){ ... },
    get page(){ ... }
  }
}

Adding a Provider

• I'm unable to follow the example. I think showing createContext / useContext first is probably a good idea.
• Context.Provider is mentioned w/o an introduction.

[justinbmeyer]

Data Modeling

• Make sure to add highlighting.

Simple Models

• SearchResults ... Should this inherit from Array? Then you get a lot for free.
• Would Object.assign() be nicer in SearchResult::constructor?

Things that would be interesting to show:

How to unify state changes across multiple components.

Could your models call useState?

class Todo {
  static todosById = {};
  static get(id){
    const [ todo, setTodo ] = useState();
  }
}


function EditTodo(){
  const [todo, setQuery]
}