Learn Typescript
Hands-on introduction to TypeScript fundamentals and their application in real projects. Learn core typing concepts, advanced TypeScript features, and how to use TypeScript with React and Express while building safer, more maintainable JavaScript applications.
What you'll learn
- Understand the fundamentals of TypeScript, including basic, literal, custom, and union types
- Apply advanced TypeScript concepts such as narrowing, utility types, generics, and explicit return types
- Use TypeScript effectively in React apps, typing state, props, components, and JSX
- Build and type a full Express server with TypeScript, including routes, controllers, middleware, and data handling
Skills you'll gain
- Gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of TypeScript
- Leverage TypeScript to create safer and more reliable JavaScript applications
- Use TypeScript features like custom types, union types, narrowing, utility types, and generics
- Type React state, props, components, and JSX that may return null
- Initialize and work with React + TypeScript projects
- Set up and run a TypeScript-powered Express server
- Type Express requests, responses, and application data
- Handle CORS, 404s, IDs, and query parameters in a typed Express API
- Automate server restarts and structure Express apps with routers, controllers, and middleware
Prerequisites
- • Solid understanding of basic JavaScript
- • Completion of Scrimba's Learn JavaScript course (recommended)
Who this course is for
- → Learners with a solid understanding of basic JavaScript
- → Developers who want to make their JavaScript applications safer and more reliable
- → Web developers interested in using TypeScript with React and Express
- → Programmers looking to strengthen their type-safety and refactoring skills
Provider
Coursera
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