--- title: A Better Way to Structure React Projects | daily.dev description: Akash Joshi: A Better Way to Structure React Projects would be better than the way we do it now. Joshi is the co-founder of React and co-creator of the popular... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-better-way-to-structure-react-projects-ph71x6xft twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Better Way to Structure React Projects | daily.dev og:description: Akash Joshi: A Better Way to Structure React Projects would be better than the way we do it now. Joshi is the co-founder of React and co-creator of the popular... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-better-way-to-structure-react-projects-ph71x6xft og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ph71x6XFT.png og:image:alt: A Better Way to Structure React Projects og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Better Way to Structure React Projects **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@thewritingdev](https://daily.dev/thewritingdev) · 6 min read · 75 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Akash Joshi: A Better Way to Structure React Projects would be better than the way we do it now. Joshi is the co-founder of React and co-creator of the popular React-as-a-Service project. He also co-founded the company React.io, which allows users to share information about their React projects. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ashwin\_raikar88** · 3 upvotes > it was awesome **@mheob** · 3 upvotes > Great article. It was well explained. But as Axel said: An example repo would be quite interesting. **@axelerated** · 3 upvotes > Good read but an example repo showing the ideas would speaks volumes more. **@udi** · 3 upvotes > Nice article. > In IMO when you're working in a team with a big code base, the better approach is to combine all the parts of a module under the same folder. for example, If you have a Page1 module, you should create all the folders related to Page1 under the same folder. All the technical services (adapters for example) can be outside, I like to call this folder stdlib/ and put inside all the services required for the whole application. > > > Module structure example: > > > Page1 > | - Components >      | - Component1 >           | - index.tsx >           | - style.scss >      | - Component2 > | - Hooks > | -... **@ghost** · 3 upvotes > If you are heavy on heavily structuring your React app, then this will be handy specially for production or large scale apps. Won't recommend for beginners though. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-better-way-to-structure-react-projects-ph71x6xft) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Better Way to Structure React Projects","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-better-way-to-structure-react-projects-ph71x6xft","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-better-way-to-structure-react-projects-ph71x6xft"},"datePublished":"2021-02-02T22:56:09.177Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Akash Joshi: A Better Way to Structure React Projects would be better than the way we do it now. 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It was well explained. But as Axel said: An example repo would be quite interesting.","datePublished":"2021-02-03T07:31:26.026Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Ph71x6XFT#c-fOgx89xbZ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Böhm","url":"https://daily.dev/mheob","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/3983539?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Good read but an example repo showing the ideas would speaks volumes more.","datePublished":"2021-02-03T06:58:26.011Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Ph71x6XFT#c-YQ1P4mOiD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Axel Möllerberg","url":"https://daily.dev/axelerated","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/343422?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice article.\nIn IMO when you’re working in a team with a big code base, the better approach is to combine all the parts of a module under the same folder. for example, If you have a Page1 module, you should create all the folders related to Page1 under the same folder. All the technical services (adapters for example) can be outside, I like to call this folder stdlib/ and put inside all the services required for the whole application.\nModule structure example:\nPage1\n| - Components\n     | - Component1\n          | - index.tsx\n          | - style.scss\n     | - Component2\n| - Hooks\n| - Context\n| - View\n     | - index.tsx\n     | - style.scss\nThis way, it’s easy to find your way in a very big project, also, it’s easy to break part of your application into separate NPM modules or create a micro-forntend.","datePublished":"2021-02-03T07:46:35.527Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Ph71x6XFT#c-g5-d4R91c","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Udi Talias","url":"https://daily.dev/udi","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1160107?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"If you are heavy on heavily structuring your React app, then this will be handy specially for production or large scale apps. Won’t recommend for beginners though.","datePublished":"2021-02-03T06:26:24.509Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Ph71x6XFT#c-r4DDYqaDn","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Deleted user","url":"https://daily.dev/ghost","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--hNIUzLiO--/f_auto/v1705327420/public/ghost_vlftth"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}]} ```