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.

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.

Using TypeScript with React

There is no option because the project will be automatically created with TypeScript enabled.


What is the command line option for the `create-react-app` command to create a React project with TypeScript?

What is the command line option for the <code>create-react-app</code> command to create a React project with TypeScript?

What is the file extension for React components that use TypeScript?

What is the file extension for React components that use TypeScript?

What npm command can be run to produce a production ready build?

What npm command can be run to produce a production ready build?

What npm command can be run to execute the Jest tests?

What npm command can be run to execute the Jest tests?

We don't - ESLint will have already been installed by Create React App!

What npm package do we need to install to enable linting?

What npm package do we need to install to enable linting?

Prettier is popular code formatting tool. Is Prettier automatically installed by Create React App?

Prettier is popular code formatting tool. Is Prettier automatically installed by Create React App?

Prettier can be configured in a JSON file. What is the file name for this configuration file?

Prettier can be configured in a JSON file. What is the file name for this configuration file?

Creating projects with Create React App

Creating projects with Create React App

In this quiz we will test what we have learned about creating projects with Create React App.

Why TypeScript?

Using basic types

Creating types

Working with generic types

Creating strongly-typed function component props

Creating strongly-typed function component state

Creating strongly-typed class components

Creating strongly-typed component events and event handlers

Creating strongly-typed context

Creating strongly-typed refs

Creating React projects with TypeScript using Create React App

Creating a React and TypeScript project manually

Putting everything together

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