Course overview

How to work with course materials

Introduction

Setting up Developer Environment

Setting up Initial Project

How to Use ESLint and Prettier Together in a React Project

How to Configure React to Use TypeScript

How to Add Jest to a React Project for Automated Testing

Setting up developer environment

Building React Hooks: API Considerations and Best Practices

How to Implement a Custom useBoolean React Hook

Testing a Custom useBoolean Hook With React Testing Library

How to Implement a Custom useMap Hook With Tests

How to Quickly Import Custom React Hooks With an Index File

Implement an Object Returning API With a react-hanger Clone

Development of custom hooks

CommonJS vs ES6: An Intro to JavaScript Module Systems

What is Transpilation? An Intro to Transpilers vs Compilers

An Intro to Transpilers: ESBuild, Babel, and SWC Compared

What are Babel Transforms and Plugins?

A Beginner's Guide to JavaScript Bundlers

How to Simplify Bundling React Code With Microbundle

How to Add TypeScript Build Steps to React

How to Implement Babel Build Steps in a React App

Conclusion

Preparing code for publishing

Add Continuous Integration to a React Build With GitHub Actions

How to Automatically Generate a React App Changelog

How to Publish a React Library to NPM With GitHub Actions

Publishing the Code

In this course we’ll build a set of custom reusable hooks, a mini react-hanger clone, essentially going from nothing to a fully-automated publishing pipeline that follows the best practices.  We will cover common Hooks APIs every React developer should know, then dive straight into implementing Custom React Hooks, similar to what you will find in leading React libraries in the open source React ecosystem.

## Why this course
React Hooks promise to eliminate the difficulties of sharing state without writing class-based components. The challenge is that Hooks do away with the lifecycle methods and class-based semantics of state management that many React developers were familiar with.  Learning React Hooks on your own can be time consuming, confusing and frustrating.  With that in mind, The newline Guide to Creating a React Hooks Library, was created to provide a complete tutorial that fully covers React Hooks.  Within a few hours you'll have a strong grasp on React Hooks and how to implement them.

## Course Topics
This course packs practical hands-on-instruction using and building React Hooks, along with the best practices you need to build wider React Hooks libraries others across your organization can use.
The first module provides an overview of the React Hooks library project we’ll build, and we'll set up a complete environment with tools for library development.
The subsequent modules then take you through building with React Hooks and creating your React Hooks library, including:
- Hooks API fundamentals
- Developing custom React Hooks
- How to write reusable React Hooks
- Common React Hooks mistakes to avoid in your code
- Transpilers and bundlers for JavaScript libraries
- Using GitHub Actions to test, build, and lint your library
- Publish your React Hooks library to NPM

We’ll use tools including React, TypeScript, Babel, as well as GitHub Actions to build, test, and package a React Hooks library available for others to download from NPM.  Ultimately, build your own React Hooks library and learn the best practices that will make your code reusable. With these skills, you can contribute more confidently to any React codebase using React Hooks, and make your team more productive.

This course is a complete step-by-step guide to coding custom React Hooks and building a Hooks library from scratch.  Confidently master React Hooks, a transformative update added since React version 16.8, that makes it much easier to reuse code as your React codebase grows.

The newline Guide to Creating a React Hooks Library

Common React Hooks mistakes to avoid in your code

Transpilers and bundlers for JavaScript libraries

Using GitHub Actions to test, build, and lint your library

The Babel setup is the most complex as it is lower-level and more customizable than TypeScript and other similar tools. I could now start to explain all the plugins, transforms, presets and other stuff you need to install in order to make your own Babel preset, but in my experience it's just not worth it. The easiest solution of all is to just use 

So, what is this preset and why you should trust it?

 - a ready-to-go CLI tool that provides the developer with everything they need for React app development, testing and building for production. As this tool has basically abstracted away Jest, ESLint, TypeScript, Babel and Webpack, it has some modules that provide a standalone usage. One of these is 

 a preset that is ready to compile TypeScript and Flow, and includes all the required optimizations, along with a minimal API to finetune some pieces of it.

const isCjs = process.env.IS_CJS === "true";
process.env.NODE_ENV = "production";

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    [
      require("babel-preset-react-app"),
      {
        useESModules: !isCjs,
        typescript: true,
        flow: false,
        helpers: true,
        absoluteRuntime: false,
      },
    ],
  ],
  ignore: [
    "**/src/**/*.d.ts",
    "**/src/setupTests.js",
    "**/src/setupTests.ts",
    "**/src/**/__tests__/**/*.ts",
    "**/src/**/__tests__/**/*.tsx",
    "**/src/**/*.test.tsx",
    "**/src/**/*.test.ts",
  ],
};

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title: How to Implement Babel Build Steps in a React App
isPublicLesson: false
---

The Babel setup is the most complex as it is lower-level and more customizable than TypeScript and other similar tools. I could now start to explain all the plugins, transforms, presets and other stuff you need to install in order to make your own Babel preset, but in my experience it's just not worth it. The easiest solution of all is to just use `babel-preset-react-app`.

So, what is this preset and why you should trust it?

You may have heard of `create-react-app` - a ready-to-go CLI tool that provides the developer with everything they need for React app development, testing and building for production. As this tool has basically abstracted away Jest, ESLint, TypeScript, Babel and Webpack, it has some modules that provide a standalone usage. One of these is `babel-preset-react-app` a preset that is ready to compile TypeScript and Flow, and includes all the required optimizations, along with a minimal API to finetune some pieces of it.

To use it you just need to install `@babel/cli` to run Babel from the CLI, and `babel-preset-react-app` to install everything it needs.

Now let's create a `babel.config.js` file:

```js
const isCjs = process.env.IS_CJS === "true";
process.env.NODE_ENV = "production";

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    [
      require("babel-preset-react-app"),
      {
        useESModules: !isCjs,
        typescript: true,
        flow: false,
        helpers: true,
        absoluteRuntime: false,
      },
    ],
  ],
  ignore: [
    "**/src/**/*.d.ts",
    "**/src/setupTests.js",
    "**/src/setupTests.ts",
    "**/src/**/__tests__/**/*.ts",
    "**/src/**/__tests__/**/*.tsx",
    "**/src/**/*.test.tsx",
    "**/src/**/*.test.ts",
  ],
};
```