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Best Practices for Folder Structure in React.

Ruchir Gupta
3 min readJan 20, 2025

When building a React application, organizing the folder structure is crucial for maintaining scalability, readability, and ease of development. A well-organized folder structure can make it easier to manage and navigate the project as it grows. Here are some best practices for organizing a React project’s folder structure:

1. Keep it Simple, But Scalable

  • For small applications, avoid overcomplicating the folder structure. A simple and flat structure might be sufficient at first.
  • As the application grows, it’s essential to scale the folder structure to handle more components, hooks, utilities, etc.

2. Follow Feature-based Organization

  • One common approach is to organize files by feature rather than by type (e.g., components, styles, etc.). This makes it easier to work on specific features without jumping between multiple folders.
  • For example:
src/
features/
auth/
components/
services/
authSlice.js
authAPI.js
dashboard/
components/
dashboardSlice.js
users/
components/
usersAPI.js

3. Use Component-driven Structure

  • React is component-based…

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Ruchir Gupta
Ruchir Gupta

Written by Ruchir Gupta

Software Developer at Accenture India, Ex-Software Engineer at Roblox Corporation.

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