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Creating the Front-End App Interface and Templates

Explore how to define TypeScript interfaces and develop reusable UI templates for a React front-end app. Learn to create menu and navigation components that structure and style the user interface efficiently.

Before we begin the creation of components for our front-end app, we'll create an interface to define the fields we'll use in the various components and some templates for the user interface. An interface contains the properties’ names and their types. A template is a form, mold, or pattern used as a guide in making the entire user interface.

Creating the House interface

To create an interface, we'll create a folder inside the src folder of our project directory named interfaces. Inside this folder, we create a file called house.ts, and add the following lines of code:

TypeScript 4.9.5
export interface House {
id: number;
name: string;
image: string;
description: string;
likes: number;
checks: number;
}
  • Line 1: We create and export an interface, House, with the interface ...