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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)

Creating a store

In this section, we'll create a store that is going to hold our state and manage the actions and reducer:

  1. Let's start off by creating a new file called Store.tsx with the following import statement to get the bits and pieces we need from Redux:
import { applyMiddleware, combineReducers, createStore, Store } from "redux";
  • createStore is a function we'll eventually use to create our store
  • We need the applyMiddleware function because we need to use the Redux Thunk middleware to manage our asynchronous actions
  • The combineReducers function is a function we can use to merge our reducers together
  • Store is a TypeScript type we can use for the store
  1. Let's import redux-thunk:
import thunk from "redux-thunk";
  1. Finally, let's import our reducer and state type:
import { productsReducer } from "./ProductsReducer&quot...