Book Image

TypeScript Microservices

Book Image

TypeScript Microservices

Overview of this book

In the last few years or so, microservices have achieved the rock star status and right now are one of the most tangible solutions in enterprises to make quick, effective, and scalable applications. The apparent rise of Typescript and long evolution from ES5 to ES6 has seen lots of big companies move to ES6 stack. If you want to learn how to leverage the power of microservices to build robust architecture using reactive programming and Typescript in Node.js, then this book is for you. Typescript Microservices is an end-to-end guide that shows you the implementation of microservices from scratch; right from starting the project to hardening and securing your services. We will begin with a brief introduction to microservices before learning to break your monolith applications into microservices. From here, you will learn reactive programming patterns and how to build APIs for microservices. The next set of topics will take you through the microservice architecture with TypeScript and communication between services. Further, you will learn to test and deploy your TypeScript microservices using the latest tools and implement continuous integration. Finally, you will learn to secure and harden your microservice. By the end of the book, you will be able to build production-ready, scalable, and maintainable microservices using Node.js and Typescript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Setting up primary environment


In this section, we will set up our environment required for our journey ahead. You already installed Node.js and TypeScript globally. At the time of writing, the available version of Node.js was 9.2.0 and TypeScript was 2.6.2.

Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

VS Code is one of the best available editors right now for TypeScript. By default, VS Code TypeScript displays warnings on incorrect code, which helps us to write better code. Linters, debugging, build issues, errors, and so on are provided out of the box by VS Code. It has supports for JSDoc, sourcemaps, setting different out-files for files that are generated, hiding derived JavaScript files, and so on. It has support for auto-imports, generating method skeletons directly just like Eclipse for Java developers. It also provides options for version control systems. Hence, it will be our primary choice as IDE. You can download it from https://code.visualstudio.com/download.

Installing it for Windows is the easiest...