[React] Asynchronously Load webpack Bundles through Code-splitting and React Suspense

One approach to building high performance applications with webpack is to take advantage of code-splitting to only load the needed JavaScript on initial load and asynchronously load additional JavaScript bundles when needed. In this lesson, we'll create add some code-splitting to our placeholder application and configure our project to support the dynamic import() syntax.

Install:

npm i -D @babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import

Add plugin into webpack config:

plugins: [
      ...
      '@babel/plugin-syntax-dynamic-import'
]

What we want to do is lazy loading a Warning component, and also utilize the code spliting from webpack:

Here is the component we want to lazy load in:

import React from 'react'
 
export default () => <span className={'warning'}>Take it easy!</span>

App.js:

import React from 'react'
import {hot} from 'react-hot-loader'
 
const Warning = React.lazy(() => import('./Warning'))
 
class App extends React.Component {
  state = {
    count: 0
  }
 
  increment = () => {
    this.setState(state => ({count: state.count + 1}))
  }
 
  decrement = () => {
    this.setState(state => ({count: state.count - 1}))
  }
 
  render() {
    const {count} = this.state
    return (
      <div>
        <h1>Hello World.</h1>
        <h2 className={count > 10 ? 'warning' : null}>
          Count: {count}
        </h2>
        <button onClick={this.increment}>+</button>
        <button onClick={this.decrement}>-</button>
        {count > 10 ?
          <React.Suspense fallback={null}>
            <Warning />
          </React.Suspense>
          : null}
      </div>
    )
  }
}
 
export default hot(module)(App)

We use React.lazy + dynamic import syntax:

const Warning = React.lazy(() => import('./Warning'))

Then we use lazy loaded Warning component with React.Suspense:

<React.Suspense fallback={null}>
   <Warning />
</React.Suspense>

'fallback' take a jsx element which will be shown when doing the lazy loading.

So what if the Warning component failed to load?

Here is where Error Boundries comes in to play:

class MyErrorBoundary extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { hasError: false };
  }
 
  static getDerivedStateFromError(error) {
    // Update state so the next render will show the fallback UI.
    return { hasError: true };
  }
 
  componentDidCatch(error, info) {
    // You can also log the error to an error reporting service
    logErrorToMyService(error, info);
  }
 
  render() {
    if (this.state.hasError) {
      // You can render any custom fallback UI
      return <h1>Something went wrong.</h1>;
    }
 
    return this.props.children;
  }
}
 
export defualt MyErrorBoundry;

Then wrap your Suspense component with boundry:

<MyErrorBoundary>
    <React.Suspense fallback={null}>
         <Warning />
     </React.Suspense>
</MyErrorBoundary>

Now we can get benifits from lazy loading and also safety from the boundry

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