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

We started this course as a React developer eager to learn TypeScript.

We learned that TypeScript is extra code we need to write, but it makes code maintenance easier and less risky. It also enables productivity features in our editor. 

We learned the standard types that are in TypeScript's sophisticated type system as well as how to create our own types with mechanisms like interfaces and type aliases. We learned how to make types reusable with the help of generics.

We then applied our knowledge of TypeScript's type system to React apps by strongly-typing component props, state, and events. We moved to learn how to strongly-type React context and component refs.

We learned how to set up React projects with TypeScript. First, we learned how to do this with the Create React App tool. We then learned how to create a React and TypeScript project with Webpack and Babel.

I encourage you to try using React with TypeScript in Visual Studio Code and experience the fantastic features that TypeScript enables, such as IntelliSense, code refactoring, and code navigation. The net effect is that your team will become more productive when using TypeScript with React.

We've now reached the end of this interactive course. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm sure what you have learned will help you in your next project!

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

Summary