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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

Adding checked functionality

Currently, our checklist component doesn’t contain the ability to check items, so we will now add checkboxes to the list of items, giving users the ability to check them. We will track the checked items using a React state.

So, carry out the following steps to add this functionality to our component:

  1. Open Checklist.tsx and add useState to the React import statement:
    import {
      ComponentPropsWithoutRef,
      ReactNode,
      useState
    } from 'react';

We will use the state to store the IDs of the checked items.

  1. At the top of the component implementation, add the state for the IDs of the checked items:
    const [checkedIds, setCheckedIds] = useState<IdValue[]>([]);

We have referenced an IdValue type that we haven’t defined yet – we’ll define this after we have finished the component implementation in step 6.

  1. Add checkboxes to the list of items as follows:
    <li...