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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)

Summary

Angular life cycle hooks are the way to initialize components and directives and to extend Angular with non-Angular widgets. They also allow the limited customization of Angular change detection.

Angular enhances HTML forms and input fields with additional status information to handle input validation. Angular also automatically adds CSS classes to input fields and forms that reflect their validation state and that the developer can use to give adequate feedback to the user. These additional features are provided to forms by the ngForm directive, and to input fields by the ngModel directive.

Pipes are Angular's way to customize the data's appearance when moved to templates through bindings. Angular furnishes predefined pipes for the most common needs, but custom pipes are very easy to define. Some pipes apply transformations that depend on the locale associated...