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Learn React with TypeScript

Learn React with TypeScript

By : Carl Rippon
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Learn React with TypeScript

Learn React with TypeScript

By: Carl Rippon

Overview of this book

Reading, navigating, and debugging a large frontend codebase can feel overwhelming for web developers, but you can overcome this with expert guidance from a seasoned software professional with over 20 years’ experience in developing a complex line of business applications. This book will help you learn React, TypeScript, and Next.js—the core technology stack behind scalable, high-performance web applications used by top companies. This third edition of Learn React with TypeScript is updated with the latest features of React 19, including server components, server actions, and powerful new hooks. The chapters show you how to use TypeScript’s advanced features for enhanced code reliability and maintainability when building robust, type-safe components. You’ll explore efficient data fetching strategies with RSCs in Next.js, as well as in single-page applications (SPAs). The book also covers modern state management with Zustand, best practices for form handling, and strategies for building well-structured, reusable components that streamline development. Finally, you’ll focus on unit testing with Vitest, ensuring your React components are resilient and error-free. By the end of this book, you'll have at your disposal the skills and best practices needed to create maintainable and performant React applications with TypeScript and Next.js.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction
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Part 2: App Fundamentals
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Part 3:Data
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Part 4:Advanced React
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Index

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We started this chapter by looking at different categories of state. We learned how to manage state robustly for each category. We spent most of the chapter focusing on the trickiest category of state, shared state. We built a small one-page app that contained components that needed to share state.

We started our shared state exploration by using the prop drilling approach. This is the simplest approach and ideal for a few adjacent components. However, it’s cumbersome for lots of components – particularly if they are far apart in the component tree.

We moved on to learn about React context and refactored the app to use it. We learned that it’s more convenient than prop drilling for sharing state between many components. However, it can cause performance issues because many components often re-render when state changes.

Next, we learned about Zustand, which is similar to React context. A difference is that no provider component is required, making...

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