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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

By : Remo H. Jansen
Book Image

Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

By: Remo H. Jansen

Overview of this book

TypeScript is an open source and cross-platform statically typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript and runs in any browser or host. This book is a step-by-step guide that will take you through the use and benefits of TypeScript with the help of practical examples. You will start off by understanding the basics as well as the new features of TypeScript 2.x. Then, you will learn how to work with functions and asynchronous programming APIs. You will continue by learning how to resolve runtime issues and how to implement TypeScript applications using the Object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP) paradigms. Later, you will automate your development workflow with the help of tools such as Webpack. Towards the end of this book, you will delve into some real-world scenarios by implementing some full-stack TypeScript applications with Node.js, React and Angular as well as how to optimize and test them. Finally, you will be introduced to the internal APIs of the TypeScript compiler, and you will learn how to create custom code analysis tools.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Frontend Development with Angular and TypeScript

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to develop a frontend web application with Angular and TypeScript. Just like in the previous chapter, we are going to try to use the backend Node.js application that we previously implemented. The application that we are going to develop is a clone of the frontend application that we developed in the previous chapter.

The features and styling of the application will be identical. However, the implementation will present some significant differences because we are going to use Angular instead of React as our frontend application development framework.

We are not going to go through the requirements of the application that we are going to implement in this chapter because we have covered them already in the preceding chapter.