--- title: Clean Up Your React Code | daily.dev description: React has a declarative programming approach. With prop types, we can make our components (both class and function components) well-defined. By following the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Clean Up Your React Code | daily.dev og:description: React has a declarative programming approach. With prop types, we can make our components (both class and function components) well-defined. By following the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GSOrY-tdc.png og:image:alt: Clean Up Your React Code 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. # Clean Up Your React Code **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · 3 min read · 113 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary React has a declarative programming approach. With prop types, we can make our components (both class and function components) well-defined. By following the composition paradigm we have clean, small, testable components. We can compose these components together and create maintainable, readable, and complex applications. ## 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. **@jappe** · 2 upvotes > Shouldn't you always clean up your code? No matter what framework is used? 😅 **@kanapka94** · 1 upvotes > Great way to clean your code is add Typescript to your project **@mrisqid** · 0 upvotes > this is great! **@lj\_codes** · 0 upvotes > Quick fire guide on using the clean up function of react's UseEffect **@antibu** · 0 upvotes > Thank you Very Much for this article ! , I'm kinda a beginner ion react JS and this article will defo help me ## 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 --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc) ```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":"Clean Up Your React Code","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/clean-up-your-react-code-gsory-tdc"},"datePublished":"2022-03-20T05:47:24.096Z","dateModified":"2022-03-20T05:47:24.096Z","description":"React has a declarative programming approach. 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No matter what framework is used? 😅","datePublished":"2022-03-21T07:15:53.499Z","dateModified":"2022-03-21T07:17:11.175Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GSOrY-tdc#c-LH1ebet_2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"jappe999","url":"https://daily.dev/jappe","image":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/10500389?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Great way to clean your code is add Typescript to your project","datePublished":"2022-03-23T07:33:10.192Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GSOrY-tdc#c-jdxcPY93p","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam","url":"https://daily.dev/kanapka94"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"this is great!","datePublished":"2022-03-20T06:54:05.165Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GSOrY-tdc#c-ybtiAMSnS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Muhammad Risqi Darmawan","url":"https://daily.dev/mrisqid","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/59747952?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Quick fire guide on using the clean up function of react’s UseEffect","datePublished":"2022-03-21T14:46:48.963Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GSOrY-tdc#c-7MlNxscd9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"LJ","url":"https://daily.dev/lj_codes","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17126971?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thank you Very Much for this article ! , I’m kinda a beginner ion react JS and this article will defo help me","datePublished":"2022-04-02T09:05:38.229Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GSOrY-tdc#c-z1mAa3O_H","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ntibushitse arsene","url":"https://daily.dev/antibu","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20683036?v=4"}}]} ```