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Introducing React

Facebook has become an incredibly popular app. As its popularity has grown, so has the demand for new features. React is Facebook’s answer to helping more people work on the code base and deliver features more quickly. React has worked so well for Facebook that Meta eventually made it open source. Today, React is a mature library for building component-based frontends that is extremely popular and has a massive community and ecosystem.

TypeScript is also a popular, mature library maintained by another big company, Microsoft. It allows users to add a rich type system to their JavaScript code, helping them be more productive, particularly in large code bases.

This book will teach you how to use both of these awesome libraries ...

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