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Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers

By : Francesco Abbruzzese
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Book Image

Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers

5 (1)
By: Francesco Abbruzzese

Overview of this book

Writing clean, object-oriented code in JavaScript gets trickier and complex as the size of the project grows. This is where Typescript comes into the picture; it lets you write pure object-oriented code with ease, giving it the upper hand over JavaScript. This book introduces you to basic TypeScript concepts by gradually modifying standard JavaScript code, which makes learning TypeScript easy for C# ASP.NET developers. As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover object programming concepts, such as classes, interfaces, and generics, and understand how they are related to, and similar in, both ES6 and C#. You will also learn how to use bundlers like WebPack to package your code and other resources. The book explains all concepts using practical examples of ASP.NET Core projects, and reusable TypeScript libraries. Finally, you'll explore the features that TypeScript inherits from either ES6 or C#, or both of them, such as Symbols, Iterables, Promises, and Decorators. By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply all TypeScript concepts to understand the Angular framework better, and you'll have become comfortable with the way in which modules, components, and services are defined and used in Angular. You'll also have gained a good understanding of all the features included in the Angular/ASP.NET Core Visual Studio project template.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Classes

Classes are the building blocks of object-oriented programming. While an interface declares just the shape and the behavior of objects, a class not only specifies a shape and a behavior but also gives the code to implement that behavior, and a way to create objects with that behavior and shape. In a few words, we may say that interfaces are just specifications while classes are specifications plus implementation.

ES6 specifications extend ES5 specifications by adding classes to JavaScript. However, when the JavaScript target is ES5, TypeScript generates equivalent code based on the JavaScript constructor functions. The TypeScript class syntax mimics the one of ES6 classes, the only difference being the addition of types to all class parts. This is by design since TypeScript is the JavaScript of the future plus types.

Classes define types, whose instances are JavaScript...