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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)

Iterators, iterables, and generators

As is the case with C# IEnumerables, JavaScript iterables are also based on the idea of suspending a computation and resuming it when a new value is required. More specifically, iterators and generator functions are the foundation of JavaScript iterables.

Iterators and iterables

Iterators are interfaces (Iterator<T> ) that support a next() operation, which, in turn, returns the following generic interface:

interface IteratorResult<T>
{
done : boolean;
value : T
}

Where the done property must return true if, and only if, no more values are available in the iteration, and where the value property must contain the current element of the iteration. Being an interface, we are...