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Gain insights into integrating TypeScript with React to improve productivity. Learn about strongly-typed props, state, and events, and set up projects using Create React App, Webpack, and Babel.

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If you are a React developer and want to build your React apps faster and more robustly, this course is for you. Learn to integrate TypeScript with React, boost your productivity, and create apps that are easier to maintain. In this course, you will learn how to utilize TypeScript’s sophisticated type system to make React development faster and your code more readable. You will learn how to create component props, state, and events that are strongly-typed, allowing you to quickly understand what you can pass and helping you avoid mistakes. Lastly, you will set up React projects with TypeScript. First, you will learn how to do this with the Create React App tool, then how to create a React and TypeScript project with Webpack and Babel.

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TypeScript

Front-end Development

React

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64 Lessons12 Quizzes

Why TypeScript?

3 Lessons

Learn how to use TypeScript to enhance React development with robust type checking and refactoring.

Understanding TypeScript

Understanding the benefits of TypeScript with React

Quiz

Using basic types

9 Lessons

Unpack the core of TypeScript's type system, type annotations, and effective type usage.

Understanding the types in JavaScript

Using type annotations

Understanding type inference

Understanding the any type

Understanding and using the void type

Using the never type

Using the unknown type

Using type assertions

Quiz

Creating types

9 Lessons

Explore creating and managing strong, flexible types in TypeScript with arrays, tuples, objects, and more.

Creating a strongly-typed array

Creating a strongly-typed tuple

Creating a strongly-typed object

Creating type aliases

Creating interfaces

Creating union types

Creating intersection types

Understanding type compatibility

Quiz

Working with generic types

6 Lessons

Apply your skills to using TypeScript generics for functions, interfaces, aliases, and classes.

Using some standard generic types

Creating generic functions

Creating generic interfaces

Creating generic type aliases

Creating generic classes

Quiz

Creating strongly-typed function component props

6 Lessons

Solve problems in defining and managing strongly-typed props in React with TypeScript.

Specifying a type for function component props

Specifying a prop as optional

Specifying a default for a function component prop

Specifying a type for an object prop

Specifying a type for a function prop

Quiz

Creating strongly-typed function component state

3 Lessons

Simplify complex topics on strongly-typed states in React with useState and useReducer hooks.

Creating strongly-typed function component states with useState

Creating strongly-typed function component state with useReducer

Quiz

Creating strongly-typed class components

4 Lessons

Master the steps to creating strongly-typed props, state, and using access modifiers in React.

Creating strongly-typed class props

Creating strongly-typed class state

Using access modifiers

Quiz

Creating strongly-typed component events and event handlers

3 Lessons

Create strongly-typed component events and handlers for robust TypeScript-React applications.

Creating strongly-typed event handlers

Creating strongly-typed events

Quiz

Creating strongly-typed context

4 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of creating and using strongly-typed contexts in React with TypeScript.

Creating a simple strongly-typed context for function components

Creating a complex strongly-typed context for function components

Consuming a context in a strongly-typed class component

Quiz

10.

Creating strongly-typed refs

3 Lessons

Master the steps to create strongly-typed refs in both function and class components.

Creating strongly-typed refs in function components

Creating strongly-typed refs in class components

Quiz

11.

Creating React projects with TypeScript using Create React App

4 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of creating, configuring, and testing React projects with TypeScript using Create React App.

Creating a basic project

Configuring linting and adding autoformatting

Running tests and producing a production-ready build

Quiz

12.

Creating a React and TypeScript project manually

7 Lessons

Take a closer look at manually setting up a React and TypeScript project, covering essential tools, configurations, and enhancements.

Creating a basic project

Adding React and TypeScript

Adding Babel

Adding code linting and autoformatting

Adding Webpack

Adding npm scripts

Quiz

13.

Putting everything together

3 Lessons

Follow the process of integrating TypeScript with React for enhanced productivity and efficiency.

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