Learn React with TypeScript: A beginner's guide to reactive

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.

Table of Contents

Introducing React
Introducing TypeScript
Setting Up React and TypeScript
Using React Hooks
Approaches to Styling React Frontends
Routing with React Router
Working with Forms
State Management
Interacting with RESTful APIs
Interacting with GraphQL APIs
Reusable Components
Unit Testing with Jest and React Testing Library