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TypeScript Microservices

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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

Primer to TypeScript


TypeScript originated from shortcomings in JavaScript development with the advent of using JavaScript for large-scale applications. TypeScript introduced a JavaScript compiler with presets of syntactical language extensions, class-based programming, and ways to convert extensions into regular JavaScript. TypeScript became extremely popular as it introduced type safety in JavaScript, which happens to be one of the most flexible languages ever. This enables JavaScript to be a more object-oriented and compile safe language. TypeScript is more of a superset of ES standards, which enables developers to write cleaner, easy-to-refactor, and upgradable code. In this section, we will go through various primary topics of TypeScript, which are essential for our journey ahead. TypeScript is JavaScript with type annotations. TypeScript has a transpiler and type checker, which throws an error if there is a mismatch in types, and converts TypeScript code to JavaScript code. We will...