JS.weekly() => #47: The 10 Component Commandments
Reusable UI components in React, moving to lerna-js mono-repo and Verly.js.
How to Build Faster with Reusable UI Components in React
In this post, the author will suggest some principles, methods, and tools that can help your team share and reuse your components to build new apps faster.
Moving from multiple repositories to a lerna-js mono-repo
“ At mitter.io, we have a couple of public-facing npm packages that we need to publish, and we recently moved to a mono-repo structure managed by Lerna from having separate repositories for each one of them. Today, I’d like to share our experience of this migration and our setup with the new monorepo structure.”
The 10 Component Commandments
- Document the usage
- Allow for contextual semantics
- Avoid boolean props
- Use props.children
- Let the parent hook into internal logic
- Spread the remaining props
- Give sufficient defaults
- Don't rename HTML attributes
- Write prop types (or types)
- Desingn for the developers
We are adding new libraries at JavaScripting.com every week. Here is one worth checking out:
Verly.js
Easy to integrate Verlet physics engine.
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