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Learn React with TypeScript - Second Edition

By : Carl Rippon
4.4 (8)
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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

Getting code coverage

Code coverage is how we refer to how much of our app code is covered by unit tests. As we write our unit tests, we’ll have a fair idea of what code is covered and not covered, but as the app grows and time passes, we’ll lose track of this.

In this section, we’ll learn how to use Jest’s code coverage option so that we don’t have to keep what is covered in our heads. We will use the code coverage option to determine the code coverage on the checklist component and understand all the different statistics in the report. We will use the code coverage report to find some uncovered code in our checklist component. We will then extend the tests on the checklist component to achieve full code coverage.

Running code coverage

To get code coverage, we run the test command with a --coverage option. We also include a --watchAll=false option that tells Jest not to run in watch mode. So, run the following command in a terminal...