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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)

Lookup and mapped types

The keyof is a keyword in TypeScript that creates a union type of all the properties in an object. The type that is created is called a lookup type. This allows us to create types dynamically, based on the properties of an existing type. It's a useful feature that we can use to create generic but strongly typed code against varying data.

Let's go through an example:

  1. We have the following IPerson interface:
interface IPerson {
id: number;
name: string;
}
  1. Let's create a lookup type on this interface using keyof:
type PersonProps = keyof IPerson;

If we hover over the PersonProps type, we see that a union type containing "id" and "name" has been created:

  1. Let's add a new property to IPerson:
interface IPerson {
id: number;
name: string;
age: number
}

If we hover over the PersonProps type again, we see that...