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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

Summary

In this chapter, we created tests on a checklist component using Jest and React Testing Library. In addition, we learned about common Jest matchers in Jest’s core package and useful matchers for component testing in a companion package called jest-dom.

We used Jest’s test runner and used options to run certain tests. This is particularly useful on large code bases.

We learned about the wide variety of queries available in React Testing Library to select elements in different ways. We used the getByText query extensively in the checklist tests. We also created a test ID on list item checkboxes so that the getByTestId query could be used to select them uniquely.

We learned that the user-event package is an excellent way of simulating user interactions that are decoupled from the implementation. We used this to simulate a user clicking a list item checkbox.

We learned how to produce code coverage reports and understood all the statistics in the report...