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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node

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

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By: David Choi

Overview of this book

React sets the standard for building high-performance client-side web apps. Node.js is a scalable application server that is used in thousands of websites, while GraphQL is becoming the standard way for large websites to provide data and services to their users. Together, these technologies, when reinforced with the capabilities of TypeScript, provide a cutting-edge stack for complete web application development. This book takes a hands-on approach to implementing modern web technologies and the associated methodologies for building full-stack apps. You’ll begin by gaining a strong understanding of TypeScript and how to use it to build high-quality web apps. The chapters that follow delve into client-side development with React using the new Hooks API and Redux. Next, you’ll get to grips with server-side development with Express, including authentication with Redis-based sessions and accessing databases with TypeORM. The book will then show you how to use Apollo GraphQL to build web services for your full-stack app. Later, you’ll learn how to build GraphQL schemas and integrate them with React using Hooks. Finally, you’ll focus on how to deploy your application onto an NGINX server using the AWS cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy complete high-performance web applications using React, Node, and GraphQL.

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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Conventions used
Get in touch
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Section 1:Understanding TypeScript and How It Can Improve Your JavaScript
Section 1:Understanding TypeScript and How It Can Improve Your JavaScript
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Chapter 1: Understanding TypeScript
Chapter 1: Understanding TypeScript
Technical requirements
What is TypeScript?
Why is TypeScript necessary?
Summary
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Chapter 2: Exploring TypeScript
Chapter 2: Exploring TypeScript
Technical requirements
What are types?
Exploring TypeScript types
Understanding classes and interfaces
Understanding inheritance
Learning generics
Learning the latest features and configuring the compiler
Summary
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Chapter 3: Building Better Apps with ES6+ Features
Chapter 3: Building Better Apps with ES6+ Features
Technical requirements
Learning about ES6 variable types and JavaScript scoping
Learning about arrow functions
Changing the this context
Learning about spread, destructuring, and rest
Learning about new array functions
Learning about new collection types
Learning about async await
Summary
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Section 2: Learning Single-Page Application Development Using React
Section 2: Learning Single-Page Application Development Using React
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Chapter 4: Learning Single-Page Application Concepts and How React Enables Them
Chapter 4: Learning Single-Page Application Concepts and How React Enables Them
Technical requirements
Understanding how websites were built in the past
Understanding SPA benefits and attributes
Understanding how React helps build SPAs
Summary
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Chapter 5: React Development with Hooks
Chapter 5: React Development with Hooks
Technical requirements
Understanding the limitations and issues with the old class-style components
Learning React Hooks and understanding how it is an improvement over class-style components
Comparing and contrasting the class way versus the Hooks way
Summary
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Chapter 6: Setting Up Our Project Using create-react-app and Testing with Jest
Chapter 6: Setting Up Our Project Using create-react-app and Testing with Jest
Technical requirements
Learning React development methods and about the build system
Understanding client-side testing for React
Mocking
Learning common tools and practices for React development
Summary
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Chapter 7: Learning Redux and React Router
Chapter 7: Learning Redux and React Router
Technical requirements
Learning about Redux state
Learning about React Router
Summary
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Section 3: Understanding Web Service Development Using Express and GraphQL
Section 3: Understanding Web Service Development Using Express and GraphQL
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Chapter 8: Learning Server-Side Development with Node.js and Express
Chapter 8: Learning Server-Side Development with Node.js and Express
Technical requirements
Understanding how Node works
Learning Node's capabilities
Understanding how Express improves Node development
Learning Express's capabilities
Creating a web API with Express
Summary
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Chapter 9: What is GraphQL?
Chapter 9: What is GraphQL?
Technical requirements
Understanding GraphQL
Understanding GraphQL schemas
Understanding Typedefs and Resolvers
Understanding queries, mutations, and subscriptions
Summary
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Chapter 10: Setting Up an Express Project with TypeScript and GraphQL Dependencies
Chapter 10: Setting Up an Express Project with TypeScript and GraphQL Dependencies
Technical requirements
Creating a TypeScript-based Express project
Adding GraphQL and dependencies to a project
Reviewing ancillary packages
Summary
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Chapter 11: What We Will Learn – Online Forum Application
Chapter 11: What We Will Learn – Online Forum Application
Analyzing what we will build – The forum application
Analyzing forum authentication
Analyzing thread management
Analyzing the thread points system
Summary
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Chapter 12: Building the React Client for Our Online Forum Application
Chapter 12: Building the React Client for Our Online Forum Application
Technical requirements
Creating the initial version of our React application
Summary
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Chapter 13: Set Up a Session State Using Express and Redis
Chapter 13: Set Up a Session State Using Express and Redis
Technical requirements
Understanding session state
Understanding Redis
Building session state with Express and Redis
Summary
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Chapter 14: Setting Up Postgres and a Repository Layer with TypeORM
Chapter 14: Setting Up Postgres and a Repository Layer with TypeORM
Technical requirements
Setting up our Postgres database
Understanding object relational mappers by using TypeORM
Building our repository layer using Postgres and TypeORM
Summary
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Chapter 15: Adding GraphQL Schema Part I
Chapter 15: Adding GraphQL Schema Part I
Technical requirements
Creating GraphQL server-side typedefs and resolvers
Integrating authentication with GraphQL resolvers
Creating React client-side Hooks for querying Apollo GraphQL
Summary
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Chapter 16: Adding a GraphQL Schema – Part II
Chapter 16: Adding a GraphQL Schema – Part II
Thread route
Summary
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Chapter 17: Deploying an Application to AWS
Chapter 17: Deploying an Application to AWS
Technical requirements
Setting up Ubuntu Linux on AWS Cloud
Setting up Redis, Postgres, and Node on Ubuntu
Setting up and deploying our app on NGINX
Summary
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Understanding how Express improves Node development

As we have seen, coding with Node directly has an awkward and cumbersome sort of feel. Having an easier-to-use API would make us more productive. This is what the Express framework attempts to do. In this section, we will learn what Express is and how it can help us write code more easily for our Node apps.

Express is not a standalone JavaScript server framework. It is a layer of code that sits on top of Node, and therefore uses Node, to make developing JavaScript servers with Node both easier and more capable. Just like Node, has its own core capabilities and then some additional features via dependency packages. Express also has its core abilities as well as a rich ecosystem of middleware that provides extra capabilities.

So then, what is Express? According to the website, Express is just an application that is a series of middleware calls. Let's explain this by first looking at a diagram:

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