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10 Ways to Speed Up React Development

Sam Winter on November 16, 2020

As much as I love writing React applications, I'd prefer not to. I'd rather have finished hours ago so I can spend time either on a beach outside m...
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Ricardo Luz

OMG that's an amazing article with tons of useful things, I'm very happy to notice that I am already using some of these stuffs but even happier to see other cool things that I never gave a try before, thanks for writing!

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Sam Winter

You’re very welcome! :)

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Gal Elmalah

Thanks for mentioning Scaffolder
Glad you liked it :)

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shadowtime2000

If you actually have a site, then use a framework such as NextJS (my favorite too) Gatsby or Remix. Apps don't really require that and you could just use create-react-app.

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Sam Winter

Agreed, there are certainly cases where a framework is overkill.

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EECOLOR

If you are using ESLint, it can become tricky to keep it in sync with Prettier. We abandoned Prettier in favor of 'autofix on save' in VSCode. This gives us:

  • the freedom to define other rules than Prettier
  • one set of rules instead of 2
  • most of the benefits of Prettier
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Sam Winter

I haven’t tried that yet but will check it out. Thank you for suggesting!

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Miroslav Jonas

I'm only missing TypeScript here. That alone speeds up development tremendously.

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Nelson González Escalante

This article blow my mind. Thanks for this information

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Lee Smith 🍻

What do you prefer if not React apps?

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Yoann Fleury

For forms, I also recommend Formiz as it is really simple to use and have multiple steps built in. 🙂

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Sam Winter

Ah, that looks like a great library!