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Best Practices for Organizing Your React App Codebase

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Best Practices for Organizing Your React App Codebase

When working with Web applications, in my case it’s React, one of the most important aspects of development is how you organize your code. A well-structured codebase will improve readability and maintainability but also facilitate scalability as your application grows. In this post, I’ll share how I organize code in my React applications, from folder structures to component organization, state management, and more. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, adopting to a systematic approach to organizing your code can drastically improve your productivity and easily understand to the new developers to your projects.

1. File and Folder Structure

A clean and logical folder structure is the foundation of an organized React application. Here’s the folder structure I typically use:

src/
|-- components/
|   |-- shared/
|   |-- layout/
|   |-- specific/
|-- pages/
|-- constants/
|-- hooks/
|-- services/
|-- store/ (optional)
|-- reducers/ (optional)
|-- actions/ (optional)
|-- selectors/ (optional)
|-- assets/
|-- styles/
|-- utilities/
|-- App.js
|-- index.js