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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node

Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition

By : David Choi, Cihan Yakar
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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node

Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node

By: David Choi, Cihan Yakar

Overview of this book

In the fast-paced world of web development, React is a widely used library for building applications, while Node.js and Express support scalable server-side solutions and web services. TypeScript enhances JavaScript projects with robustness and maintainability, making it an essential tool for large-scale applications. This edition provides a hands-on guide to mastering these technologies, with new chapters and updated content that reflects current industry practices. Begin with a solid foundation in TypeScript to build high-quality web applications. Explore React 19, leveraging the Hooks API and Redux Toolkit for state management. Then transition to server-side development with Express, incorporating modern practices like JWT-based authentication and Prisma ORM for database management. A major focus of this edition is production readiness. Learn how to containerize your application with Docker and Podman, automate builds and tests with GitHub Actions, and deploy to the cloud. New chapters add monitoring and observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana plus a hands-on guide to AI-assisted development with LLM coding agents. Other updates include Vitest for testing and expanded content on Postgres and Prisma ORM. By the end of this book, you will have built and deployed a comprehensive full-stack application, ready for production.
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In this chapter, we explored Express, the most widely used framework for building web applications on top of Node.js. We started by understanding how Express improves on raw Node development through its middleware pipeline, where each request passes through a chain of functions that can inspect, modify, or respond before reaching the final route handler. We saw the difference between application-level middleware, route-level middleware, and error-handling middleware, and learned that Express identifies error handlers by their four-parameter signature.

We then built a RESTful web API with versioned endpoints, handled both GET and POST requests, parsed JSON request bodies, and used route parameters to retrieve specific resources. Along the way, we revisited HTTP fundamentals like status codes, headers, and the importance of following REST conventions, including the concept of idempotency.

Finally, we introduced integration testing with supertest and the Node test runner, verifying...

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