Chapter 13. Developing React.js apps with TypeScript
This chapter covers
- A quick intro to the React.js library
- How React components use props and state
- How React components communicate with each other
The React.js library (a.k.a. React) was created by a Facebook engineer, Jordan Walke, in 2013, and today it has 1,300 contributors and 140,000 stars on GitHub! According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey of 2019, it’s the second-most popular JavaScript library (jQuery remains the most broadly used library). React is not a framework but a library responsible for rendering views in the browser (think of the letter V in the MVC design pattern). In this chapter, we’ll show you how to start developing web apps in React using TypeScript.
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