ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Creating mock data

We desperately need some data so that we can develop our frontend. In this section, we'll create some mock data in our frontend that will expose a function to get data. We will use this when we plug our real ASP.NET Core backend in. Follow these steps:

1. Create a new file in the src folder called QuestionsData.ts with the following interface:

export interface QuestionData {  questionId: number;  title: string;  content: string;  userName: string;  created: Date;}

Before moving on, let's understand the code we have just entered because we have just written some TypeScript.

An interface is a contract that defines a type with a collection of property and method definitions without any implementation. Interfaces don't exist in JavaScript, ...