# mithi/react-philosophies

🧘  Things I think about when I write React code 🧘

Repository: https://github.com/mithi/react-philosophies
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-philosophies
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
License Family: other
Topics: reactjs, react, clean-code, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2025-10-05T16:46:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 43/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 45, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1803, "days_push": 332, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3734, forks 212 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.771599+00:00)

## What it is
A curated document of philosophies, principles, and tips for writing clean, performant, and testable React code. It is a reading resource covering design, performance, and testing practices rather than a software library.

## Use cases
- learn how to write clean react code
- react performance optimization tips
- react testing principles and best practices
- improve react code maintainability
- react design patterns guidance
- study material for react developers

## When to choose
- you want opinionated guidance on writing better React code
- you are learning React and want clean-code and performance principles
- you want a free, community-contributed reference on React design and testing

## When to avoid
- you need an executable library, tool, or framework
- you want official React documentation or a structured course
- you need framework-agnostic frontend guidance

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: frontend, web-development, tutorials
- platform: -
- tags: react, clean-code, best-practices, performance, testing, guide, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mithi/react-philosophies (main) score 43

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.771599+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:29:12.294547+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mithi/react-philosophies (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.771599+00:00, sha 1e8084e5e409)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.