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Create React Best Practices Documentation

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
react
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing React component, context, and hook patterns in the extension and mobile codebases, noting deprecated and currently promoted approaches. Prepare a product-agnostic draft for input from both @MetaMask/extension-devs and @MetaMask/mobile-devs, then confirm that the shared practices are approved and ratified.

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Description

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The extension code base has several patterns of component structures in it, some of which are deprecated while others are the current promoted way of writing react components. The purpose of this document is to encapsulate all of our best practices such that a new contributor is not guessing on the appropriate way to build components (as well as how to do the other parts of React, such as contexts, hooks, etc).

This document is product agnostic and will need to have members of both @MetaMask/extension-devs and @MetaMask/mobile-devs weigh in on the final document to make sure that it properly reflects shared principles. The document that fulfills this ticket need not be a reflection of the current state of the products, either. If during discussion we agree upon a shared best practice across products but one product team has not yet implemented any instances of that best practice, that is fine. Documentation that is created in this repo is subject to change, approval and ratification of updates.

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JavaScript
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