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Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By : Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges
Book Image

Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By: Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges

Overview of this book

TypeScript is a superset of the JavaScript programming language, giving developers a tool to help them write faster, cleaner JavaScript. With the help of its powerful static type system and other powerful tools and techniques it allows developers to write modern JavaScript applications. This book is a practical guide to learn the TypeScript programming language. It covers from the very basics to the more advanced concepts, while explaining many design patterns, techniques, frameworks, libraries and tools along the way. You will also learn a ton about modern web frameworks like Angular, Vue.js and React, and you will build cool web applications using those. This book also covers modern front-end development tooling such as Node.js, npm, yarn, Webpack, Parcel, Jest, and many others. Throughout the book, you will also discover and make use of the most recent additions of the language introduced by TypeScript 3 such as new types enforcing explicit checks, flexible and scalable ways of project structuring, and many more breaking changes. By the end of this book, you will be ready to use TypeScript in your own projects and will also have a concrete view of the current frontend software development landscape.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Frontend – loading lyrics and redirecting to the lyrics page

Let's now handle the song selection event. When a user selects a song, we want to show the (yet to be completed) Lyrics page and have it render the lyrics.

To do this, there are many possible solutions. Typically, we would pass the song ID as a route parameter to the route and use it in the Lyrics page to fetch the lyrics. In our case, since we already have our GraphQL client configured, we will directly fetch the lyrics in the Home page and pass them along with the song through the route parameters.

The first thing to know is that since our Home page is rendered by react-router, it automatically receives several routing-related props. Let's start by making that more obvious.

Open the frontend/src/pages/home.tsx file and do the following:

  1. Add the following import: import { RouteComponentProps } &apos...