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Learn React with TypeScript 3

By : Carl Rippon
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Learn React with TypeScript 3

By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

React today is one of the most preferred choices for frontend development. Using React with TypeScript enhances development experience and offers a powerful combination to develop high performing web apps. In this book, you’ll learn how to create well structured and reusable react components that are easy to read and maintain by leveraging modern web development techniques. We will start with learning core TypeScript programming concepts before moving on to building reusable React components. You'll learn how to ensure all your components are type-safe by leveraging TypeScript's capabilities, including the latest on Project references, Tuples in rest parameters, and much more. You'll then be introduced to core features of React such as React Router, managing state with Redux and applying logic in lifecycle methods. Further on, you'll discover the latest features of React such as hooks and suspense which will enable you to create powerful function-based components. You'll get to grips with GraphQL web API using Apollo client to make your app more interactive. Finally, you'll learn how to write robust unit tests for React components using Jest. By the end of the book, you'll be well versed with all you need to develop fully featured web apps with React and TypeScript.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

What is New in TypeScript 3

In its six years of existence, TypeScript has continued to move forward and mature nicely. Is TypeScript 3 a significant release for React developers? What exactly are the new features that we have to add to our toolkit in TypeScript 3? These questions will be answered in this chapter, starting with the tuple type and how it can now be successfully used with the rest and spread JavaScript syntax, which is very popular in the React community. We'll then move on to the new unknown type and how it can be used as an alternative to the any type. Further more, we'll break TypeScript projects up into smaller projects with the new project references in TypeScript. Finally, we'll go about defining default properties in a strongly-typed React component that has improved in TypeScript 3.

By the end of the chapter, we'll be ready to start learning...