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Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

By : Peter O'Hanlon
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Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

By: Peter O'Hanlon

Overview of this book

With the demand for ever more complex websites, the need to write robust, standard-compliant JavaScript has never been greater. TypeScript is modern JavaScript with the support of a first-class type system, which makes it simpler to write complex web systems. With this book, you’ll explore core concepts and learn by building a series of websites and TypeScript apps. You’ll start with an introduction to TypeScript features that are often overlooked in other books, before moving on to creating a simple markdown parser. You’ll then explore React and get up to speed with creating a client-side contacts manager. Next, the book will help you discover the Angular framework and use the MEAN stack to create a photo gallery. Later sections will assist you in creating a GraphQL Angular Todo app and then writing a Socket.IO chatroom. The book will also lead you through developing your final Angular project which is a mapping app. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into React with Docker and microservices. You’ll even focus on how to build an image classification program with machine learning using TensorFlow. Finally, you’ll learn to combine TypeScript and C# to create an ASP.NET Core-based music library app. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently use TypeScript 3.0 and different JavaScript frameworks to build high-quality apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we had a look at features of TypeScript that help us to build future-proof TypeScript code. We looked at how to set the appropriate ES levels to simulate or use modern ECMAScript features. We looked at how to use union and intersection types as well as how to create type aliases. We then looked into object spread and REST properties before we covered AOP with decorators. We also covered how to create and use map types, as well as using generics and promises.

As preparation for the UIs we will be producing in the rest of this book, we briefly looked at using Bootstrap to lay out UIs and covered the basics of the Bootstrap grid layout system.

In the next chapter, we are going to build a simple markdown editor using a simple Bootstrap web page hooked up to our TypeScript. We will see how techniques such as design patterns and single responsibility classes help us to create robust professional code.