Learn React with TypeScript 3: Beginner's guide to modern React web development with TypeScript 3

The author seems to have no idea the actual meaning of the word "refactor". Most every code change is described as a "refactor" even when the change alters external behavior, even when the change fails to improve internal attributes or functionality.Some React features being shown are not actually available in the 16.7 alpha version being shown, for example React.useState. Apparently this functionality is not present in 16.7, but does exist in the yet to be released 16.8 version. A work-around exists if you Google a bit.Some React features being taught are deprecated, for example: React.SFC.The author appears to have a working knowledge of React but isn't really keeping up on recent React changes. I'm just finishing the book in January 2019 after it was published in November 2018 and it appears to already have much out of date information.There is no shortage of typos and grammatical errors, a total quality control failure.

This book has you installing tools and coding almost from the first paragraph. You learn by reading then doing. The order of introduction is good - as is the pacing. Example code is simple and abundant. The scope is focused to just what you need to come up to speed. It's an easy read.The introduction to TypeScript coming from JavaScript is the best I have seen. It does not cover all the features of TypeScript. Instead, it gives you just enough to be comfortable and understand what TypeScript is for.This book does not teach you to program. It does not teach you web development. It is targeted at developers who have some background with JavaScript and browser development and want to come up to speed quickly on React and Typescript.

I have limited knowledge of the web development and as such, I found this book challenging to follow along with. This is forcing me to look elsewhere for the bits that I am not quite understanding from this book. I have no problem with that but the point is that while this book may serve as an intro to typescript, it is far from a beginners intro to an npm project. As stated, about a chapter and a half of this book is not formatted correctly for viewing in Kindle Cloud Reader. If Amazon can fix that, I can give this book 3 stars.

My book arrived sooner than I have expected. I am an experienced web developer but have not worked with React or Typescript before. I like how the author explains the technical aspects of react that I can easily understand. To get the most of this book, you must at least try to install react using npm or yarn on your own first, then this book will be the light bulb.

As other reviewers stated, there were MAJOR formatting issues when trying to view the book with the Amazon books web browser. Had to download the kindle app from Amazon to get it to be readable (the app works fine though). Mildly annoying that I had to download an entire app for this book, but whatever.The book is a bit outdated, which didn't cause too many problems at the beginning, but it becomes a bit more difficult the further along in the book you go (and you'll have to spend extra time learning to debug it). Also, as the book goes on, I found increasingly more typos and just generally unclear or out of logical order instructions (ex: it'll tell you to write all this code that appears broken, only to ask you to import the correct modules at the END of all the instructions - makes no sense). This has caused me a lot of headaches and moments where I'm just confused as to why the code isn't working because I've written it just like the book, only for them to answer the problem several pages later (after I already spent hours trying to fix it).This was altogether a frustrating experience with only short moments of clarity.I guess if you go into it knowing this, you'll have a better go than I did, but yeah. I guess it was still somewhat helpful and informative, but mostly only because I had to go and Google things myself to clarify what the book was trying to say.

See screenshot above. I think the book does a good job of giving an intro, but the formatting issues like the screenshot make it so you have to your phone kindle app or kindle reader in order to follow along. Very frustrating, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it does the book isn't usable.If they fixed the formatting issues I'd probably give it 4 stars (and 5 if they updated the code to work better with the newer versions of the npx create-react-app templates (starts with Functional components rather than classes) and TSLint is deprecated, so doing a quick update for ESLint would definitely help readers get more up to date skills.

To give you some background I'm now in an architecture role but have been writing commercial product software for 30 years in a variety of languages and am seeking to understand the difficulties and techniques for building browser based apps, so a rich one page front end.This book steps you through writing typescript and react pretty well. There's a reasonable set of work instructions to put something together as an example to see how stuff works. The writing is good and clear.So I worked through the book, did the examples saw the effect and then tried to adapt the examples to my own backend system. Firstly I'm unconvinced that the redux/rest calling example actually works. This could well be down to libraries changing from when the book was first written, or my lack of understanding on how to adapt the examples.However this highlighted the main issue with this book: which it doesn't give you the theoretical underpinnings of the limitations the platform you're writing for, more complex examples or the reasons why we're jumping through the react/redux hoops of updating stores rather than using class variables of other things commonly used on different platforms.What the book is doing is talking you through entering code into an IDE.This means when you run into problems later on you struggle to understand what the system is trying to tell you.So it's not a bad book to get you started, but don't think that this will be the only TypesScript/React/Redux book you'll buy.

When you are to learn modern SharePoint UI development you need a combination of TypeScript and React that is pretty hard to learn with the official tutorials if you don't know either of them. SharePoint tutorials require knowledge of TypeScript and React, TypeScript tutorials are only about TypeScript and React tutorials are React with pure JavaScript. This book is the fastest way to get the basic knowledge for SharePoint UI development so that you can continue with the SharePoint specific topics.The reviews mentioning that the book is already outdated are irrelevant for SharePoint since the package versions Microsoft recommends for SharePoint development are *even more* outdated.

Really good book which takes you to react through typescript. It teaches you both, typescript and react. It misses to give details of behind the scene working of react, but still, it is best you have in the market in my opinion. Just one stop for both.