Creating a React and TypeScript App
Explore how to create a React app using Create React App with TypeScript integration. Learn the advantages of TypeScript's static typing and how it improves development productivity. Follow step-by-step instructions to scaffold and run your React TypeScript project in Visual Studio Code.
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Previously, we discovered that create- react-app (CRA) was leveraged by the Visual Studio template to create the React app. We also learned that CRA did a lot of valuable setup and configuration for us. We are going to leverage CRA in this section to create our React app. CRA is a package in the npm registry that we will execute to scaffold a React and TypeScript project. First, we will take the time to understand the benefits of using TypeScript.
Understanding the benefits of TypeScript
TypeScript adds an optional static typing layer on top of JavaScript that we can use during our development. Static types allow us to catch ...