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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)

Technical requirements

We use the following technologies in this chapter:

  • TypeScript playground: This is a website at https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/ that allows us to play with asynchronous code without installing anything.
  • Node.js and npm: TypeScript and React are dependent on these. We can install these from https://nodejs.org/en/download/. If we already have these installed, make sure npm is at least at version 5.2.
  • TypeScript: This can be installed via npm with the following command in a terminal:
npm install -g typescript
  • Visual Studio Code. We'll need an editor to write our React and TypeScript code, which can be installed from https://code.visualstudio.com/. We will also need the TSLint (by egamma) and Prettier (by Estben Petersen) extensions installed within Visual Studio Code.
  • jsonplaceholder.typicode.com: We will use this online service to help us learn...