Preface

React was built by Meta to provide more structure to its code base and allow it to scale much better. React worked so well for Facebook that they eventually made it open source. Today, React is the dominant technology for building the frontend of an application; it allows us to build small, isolated, and highly reusable components that can be composed together to create complex frontends.

TypeScript was built by Microsoft to help developers more easily develop large JavaScript-based programs. It is a superset of JavaScript that brings a rich type system to it. This type system helps developers to catch bugs early and allows tools to be created to robustly navigate and refactor code.

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

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