For the past 2 and a half years I've been teaching myself web development with the plan of making a late career change. I'd consider myself to have intermediate JS knowledge. I'm already pretty familiar with using React and love it, especially React + Hooks (and NextJS too).

Browsing job postings for React/Front-end devs, a lot of them mention Typescript. In the past few days I've gone through a couple basic tutorials for Typescript and I think I can grok most of the syntax (instances, aliases, union types, literal types, tuples, enums, etc.) and why you'd bother using Typescript in the first place. But somehow every tutorial that's supposed to show you how to put React + Typescript together just doesn't seem to gel for me.

Can anyone recommend a good tutorial (on Udemy/Youtube or elsewhere) that covers the absolute basics of using Typescript in React components? Do I need to have a really rock-solid grasp of some fundamental TS concept (generics?) before it will start to make sense? Is TS-in-React is just supposed to "click" once your understanding of Typescript is good enough?

Thanks in advance for any advice you're willing to give. (I'd also love to hear that TS isn't mandatory for finding a job, but if the odds are good that I'll be using it at my new position, I want to start learning now.)

(Edit: I know this question belongs on r/typescript, but if anyone wants to recommend good resources for learning Typescript itself, I'm all ears.)