Carousel
Now that that is done, let's go do Carousel.tsx
import { Component, MouseEvent, ReactNode } from "react";
// above Carousel
interface IProps {
images: string[];
}
// add types to class
class Carousel extends Component<IProps> { … }
// add types to state
state = {
active: 0
};
// modify handleIndexClick
handleIndexClick = (event: MouseEvent<HTMLElement>): void => {
if (!(event.target instanceof HTMLElement)) {
return;
}
if (event.target.dataset.index) {
this.setState({
active: +event.target.dataset.index,
});
}
};
// add return type
render(): ReactNode { }
- React.Component is a generic, in that it can accept other types. Here we're telling it what its state and props will look like. We start the interfaces off with a capital I because this signifies that this is an interface. This is a common pattern and one TSLint enforced but ESLint doesn't by deafult. I'm showing you so you can make your own call.
- We could specify an
IState
as well as a second parameter to theComponent
generic but since we have thestate = {}
it can infer that without us doing that. - We need to type the event type coming back from the DOM. We know it'll come from an HTML element, and we have to make sure it's not a generic window event. TypeScript forces a lot of this defensive programming.
Carousel is done.
🏁 Click here to see the state of the project up until now: typescript-3