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TypeScript Blueprints

By : Ivo Gabe de Wolff
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TypeScript Blueprints

By: Ivo Gabe de Wolff

Overview of this book

TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. Having been designed for the development of large applications, it is now being widely incorporated in cutting-edge projects such as Angular 2. Adopting TypeScript results in more robust software - software that is more scalable and performant. It's scale and performance that lies at the heart of every project that features in this book. The lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build some truly amazing projects. You'll build a complete single page app with Angular 2, create a neat mobile app using NativeScript, and even build a Pac Man game with TypeScript. As if fun wasn't enough, you'll also find out how to migrate your legacy codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript. This book isn't just for developers who want to learn - it's for developers who want to develop. So dive in and get started on these TypeScript projects.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TypeScript Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding utility functions


We will write several utility functions in lib/game/utils.ts. With flatten, we will transform an array of arrays into one array.

export function flatten<U>(source: U[][]): U[] { 
  return (<U[]>[]).concat(...source); 
} 

With update, we can modify some properties of an object. This is the same function as in previous chapters.

export function update<U extends V, V>(old: U, changes: V): U { 
  const result = Object.create(Object.getPrototypeOf(old)); 
  for (const key of Object.keys(old)) { 
    result[key] = (<any> old)[key]; 
  } 
  for (const key of Object.keys(changes)) { 
    result[key] = (<any> changes)[key]; 
  } 
  return result; 
} 

Next, we will create a function for working with Math.random. randomInt will return a random integer in a certain range and chance has a chance to return true:

export function randomInt(min: number, max: number) { 
  return min +...