Scaling React Codebases: 5 Patterns for Clean Code

I spent the last few weeks(weeks nhi bhai 1 day tbh) going through everything I could find on scaling React codebases. Dan Abramov's essays. Kent C. Dodds' patterns. Bulletproof React. GitHub discussions. Reddit threads. The works. One thing became clear: the patterns that survive scale aren't clever. They're boring. Here are 5 that kept coming up: 1. Booleans should ask questions isLoading not loading. hasError not error. Reads like English in conditionals. 2. Destructure props at the top Your component's API should be visible in 2 seconds. Not buried in JSX. 3. Early returns > nested ternaries Handle edge cases first. Happy path last. Simple. 4. Never lie to the dependency array That eslint-disable comment? You're hiding a bug. 5. Memoize after profiling, not before useMemo everywhere isn't optimization. It's guessing. Nothing new here. But I couldn't find one place that put it all together with real code examples and anti-patterns. So I made one. Link in comments 👇 #React #JavaScript #Frontend #WebDevelopment #TypeScript #CleanCode

The memoization point is so real. I’ve definitely added useMemo more times than I should have 😅

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