A Simple App with TypeScript, React and Styled Components - Part 1: setting up the tools

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

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  • DefinitelyTyped

    The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.

  • Read more about these types at: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped.

  • TypeScript

    TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  • TypeScript as our language of choice

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  • webpack

    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

  • The first step is to use create-react-app to generate a simple application as a starting point. create-react-app spares us the work of configuring several build tools, and makes our life easier. Among many others, it will automatically set up Webpack and Babel(configured to compile TypeScript), as well as web-vitals. All of this in a single command!

  • React

    The library for web and native user interfaces.

  • React will be our framework to develop our app

  • create-react-app

    Set up a modern web app by running one command.

  • The first step is to use create-react-app to generate a simple application as a starting point. create-react-app spares us the work of configuring several build tools, and makes our life easier. Among many others, it will automatically set up Webpack and Babel(configured to compile TypeScript), as well as web-vitals. All of this in a single command!

  • babel-sublime

    Syntax definitions for ES6 JavaScript with React JSX extensions.

  • The first step is to use create-react-app to generate a simple application as a starting point. create-react-app spares us the work of configuring several build tools, and makes our life easier. Among many others, it will automatically set up Webpack and Babel(configured to compile TypeScript), as well as web-vitals. All of this in a single command!

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