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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

By : Nathan Rozentals
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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

4.7 (3)
By: Nathan Rozentals

Overview of this book

TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript, designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Mastering Typescript is a golden standard for budding and experienced developers. With a structured approach that will get you up and running with Typescript quickly, this book will introduce core concepts, then build on them to help you understand (and apply) the more advanced language features. You’ll learn by doing while acquiring the best programming practices along the way. This fourth edition also covers a variety of modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. You'll explore Angular, React, Vue, RxJs, Express, NodeJS, and others. You'll get up to speed with unit and integration testing, data transformation, serverless technologies, and asynchronous programming. Next, you’ll learn how to integrate with existing JavaScript libraries, control your compiler options, and use decorators and generics. By the end of the book, you will have built a comprehensive set of web applications, having integrated them into a single cohesive website using micro front-end techniques. This book is about learning the language, understanding when to apply its features, and selecting the framework that fits your real-world project perfectly.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

Introduction to React

In this section of the chapter, we will set up a React development environment, and explore the JSX syntax that React uses. We will also discuss how parent components pass information to child components through properties, or props, and how a component can track its own properties through what is known as React state.

React setup

Setting up a React development environment has, in the past, been a rather time-consuming and delicate operation. Getting React to work properly with TypeScript in the past only seemed to add to this complexity. The React community, however, has introduced a set of handy utilities to make setting up a React development environment a breeze.

We can create a fully fledged React application, complete with unit testing and TypeScript integration, by running the following command:

npx create-react-app product-list --template typescript

Here, we are running the create-react-app script directly with npx, instead of installing...