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Learn React with TypeScript - Second Edition

By : Carl Rippon
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Learn React with TypeScript - Second Edition

4.4 (8)
By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

Reading, navigating, and debugging a large frontend codebase is a major issue faced by frontend developers. This book is designed to help web developers like you learn about ReactJS and TypeScript, both of which power large-scale apps for many organizations. This second edition of Learn React with TypeScript is updated, enhanced, and improved to cover new features of React 18 including hooks, state management libraries, and features of TypeScript 4. The book will enable you to create well-structured and reusable React components that are easy to read and maintain, leveraging modern design patterns. You’ll be able to ensure that all your components are type-safe, making the most of TypeScript features, including some advanced types. You’ll also learn how to manage complex states using Redux and how to interact with a GraphQL web API. Finally, you’ll discover how to write robust unit tests for React components using Jest. By the end of the book, you’ll be well-equipped to use both React and TypeScript.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
6
Part 2: App Fundamentals
10
Part 3: Data
14
Part 4: Advanced React

Creating the project

In this section, we will start by creating the project for the app we will build. We will then create a REST API for the app to consume.

Setting up the project

We will develop the app using Visual Studio Code and require a new Create React App-based project setup. We’ve previously covered this several times, so we will not cover the steps in this chapter – instead, see Chapter 3, Setting Up React and TypeScript.

We will style the app with Tailwind CSS. We have previously covered how to install and configure Tailwind in Create React App in Chapter 5, Approaches to Styling Frontends. So, after you have created the React and TypeScript project, install and configure Tailwind.

We will use React Router to load data, so see Chapter 6, Routing with React Router, for information on how to do this.

We will use React Hook Form to implement the form that creates blog posts, and the @tailwindcss/forms plugin to style the form. See Chapter 7, Working...