Learn React with TypeScript

A beginner's guide to reactive web development with React 18 and TypeScript

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Carl Rippon

Paid access

|May 2024

E-Book €32.99Institutions €132.95

Description

Take your first step in building modern-day component-based web apps using the latest features and capabilities of React and TypeScript with this easy-to-follow guide

Key Features

Learn to use different React hooks with TypeScript
Explore different styling approaches while building React web apps
Gain experience in using React Dev Tools to debug components
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Gain first-hand experience of TypeScript and its productivity features
Understand how to transpile your TypeScript code into JavaScript for running in a browser
Build a React frontend codebase with hooks
Interact with REST and GraphQL web APIs
Design and develop strongly typed reusable components
Create automated component tests

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced frontend developers looking to build large scale web applications using React and TypeScript. Intermediate knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS is a prerequisite.