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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)

Integrating WebPack in ASP.NET Core middleware

ASP.NET Core offers the Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaServices package, which helps its interaction with WebPack. It contains an ASP.NET Core middleware that takes care of launching the WebPack build each time the project is run in development mode, passing it useful options and possibly enabling WebPack Hot Modules Replacement (simply called HMR). With HMR set to on, WebPack automatically detects changes in all source files processed and automatically sends patches to the client in order to immediately update all assets on the client side. Thus, if a CSS file is packaged with WebPack (see the Bundling CSS, images, and HTML section), any change made in it is immediately visible in the page shown by the development browser.

Before modifying the project of the previous section, let's make a copy of it. Then right-click on the dependencies...