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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!