Building Connect 4 with React Typescript in 70 Minutes

Hey it's Alexei 👋, let's make Connect4 using react typescript in 70 minutes.

As always, if you have questions or suggestions please leave a comment! For more videos like this and more check out my channel!

Sorry for the audio coming out of one speaker - I'll take extra care to make sure that doesn't happen with the next one!

Code for the video can be found here:

Thank you for taking an interest in coding and self-development. Kudos on your initiative and drive, I'm proud of ya 😊.

[Pluvofor]

Thank you for taking the time to do this Alexei. There is very little typescript-react content around. Also I like your thinking-like-a-developer approach. I'm going to sub you just in case you ever feel like putting more of these out. ;)

[Jrrs]

more typescript react things with jest please!

[shel]

Thank you for making this Alexei. Why do you use public ahead of your render methods? And why have more than one render method in your main component? Is this a unique nuance of typescript?

[patrickmclennaful]

Awesome video, thanks! I liked your tic tac toe video as well.


Quick question, as someone very new to Typescript...why do you pass an empty object into each component alongside the State interface?

[wt]

I think typescript-react is not ideal as most people starting out only work in React and JS, was hard to follow as I didnt know the TS