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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

Using generic props

In this section, we’ll take some time to understand how to create our own generic types and also learn about the keyof TypeScript feature, which is useful for generic types. We will use this knowledge to build the first iteration of the checklist component with a generic type for its props.

Understanding generics

We have used generics throughout this book. For example, the useState hook has an optional generic parameter for the type of state variable:

const [visible, setVisible] = useState<boolean>()

Generic parameters in a function allow that function to be reusable with different types and be strongly typed. The following function returns the first element in an array, or null if the array is empty. However, the function only works with a string array:

function first(array: Array<string>): string | null {
  return array.length === 0 ? null : array[0];
}

Generics allows us to make this function usable with any type...

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