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TypeScript 2.x By Example

By : Sachin Ohri
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TypeScript 2.x By Example

By: Sachin Ohri

Overview of this book

The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles. This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you’ll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You’ll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You’ll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast. By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Setting up your NativeScript environment

NativeScript provides very good documentation about installing and setting up your development environment. You can find the documentation at https://docs.nativescript.org/angular/start/quick-setup. We will briefly go through the setup process here, but recommend that you go through the NativeScript documentation to understand the process.

NativeScript CLI

The best way to use NativeScript is to through the NativeScript CLI. You can install the NativeScript CLI from npm using the following command:

npm install -g nativescript

This command will install the NativeScript library in your global scope. To confirm that the installation has been successful, you can try running the following...