Type Checking With PropTypes: Better TypeScript Resources

[nikitarevenco]

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The current lesson suggests refactoring old components into typescript. This approach is good, but it may not necessarily fully teach learners about typescript. They may miss out on a lot of extremely useful typescript concepts.

Because typescript is only as useful as you can make it, I think it would be better that learners learn as much as possible about typescript and it's features.

Suggestion 1: My recommendation is to recommend the following in that order:

• Read the typescript handbook fully. Spend time really trying to digest and understand everything. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook
• Complete every challenge on typescript hero https://typehero.dev/explore from the lowest to highest difficulty. This website is an absolute gem of a resource and absolutely elevated my skills. It has typescript specific challenges that focus on incrementally building skill. It is similar to the Odin Project. Free and open-source. I'm not sponsored. It gradually introduces every concept and also tests the learner on every skill introduced.

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Node / JS

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https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/node-path-react-new-type-checking-with-proptypes

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[MaoShizhong]

Thanks for this issue @nikitarevenco.

That bit of the lesson isn't encouraging people to go and learn TS now. All it's saying is that if in the future, someone wished to explore TS, refactoring past JS projects is a great way. They're on their own otherwise to explore that.

We don't want to provide the proposed resources, at that changes the content's intent to imply that we're encouraging people to do this during the curriculum, and that's not our intent at all. Therefore, it's not the lesson's responsibility to provide resources for that. Hope that makes sense.