React Best Practices by Pearson
3h 23mIntermediate2026-03-27
Authors
Pearson
Course details
React has become a cornerstone of modern front-end development, enabling teams to build dynamic, high-performance user interfaces. In this course from Shaun Wassell, take your skills from intermediate to expert level, exploring the modern techniques, patterns, and best practices that define professional React development—from functional components and hooks to state management, routing, and more. Learn how to leverage advanced patterns like compound components and render props, implement state management solutions at scale using Redux or the Context API, and optimize your applications for production. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with practical skills to structure and build efficient, scalable React applications for complex real-world scenarios.
Learning objectives
Develop a deep understanding of React's latest features, including hooks and the Context API, to write cleaner and more efficient code.
Apply best practices for building scalable and maintainable React applications, focusing on component design, state management, and routing.
Enhance the performance of React applications through advanced techniques, such as code splitting, lazy loading, and memoization.
Learning objectives
Develop a deep understanding of React's latest features, including hooks and the Context API, to write cleaner and more efficient code.
Apply best practices for building scalable and maintainable React applications, focusing on component design, state management, and routing.
Enhance the performance of React applications through advanced techniques, such as code splitting, lazy loading, and memoization.
Skills covered
Interaction DesignReact.jsMetaFront-End Web DevelopmentUser ExperienceWeb DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- React best practices - Getting started
Best Practices for Components
- Learning objectives
- Recognize different component types, part 1
- Recognize different component types, part 2
- Understand the difference between hooks and class components, part 1
- Understand the difference between hooks and class components, part 2
- Use composition with components
Best Practices for State Management
- Learning objectives
- Manage state with hooks
- Manage state with Context
- Manage state with Redux
Best Practices for Project Organization
- Learning objectives
- Learn the difference between feature- and function-based organization
- Keep component files lean
Best Practices for Routing and Navigation
- Learning objectives
- Learn React Router best practices
- Improve performance with lazy-loaded routes
- Use route guards to protect front-end routes
Optimize Performance
- Learning objectives
- Using React.memo, useMemo, and useCallback
- Virtualize lists for performance
- Profile and debug apps with React DevTools
Security Best Practices
- Learning objectives
- Protect against cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Safe data handling and avoiding exposing sensitive data
Conclusion
- Summary and next steps