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Learn Type-Driven Development

By : Yawar Amin, Kamon Ayeva
Book Image

Learn Type-Driven Development

By: Yawar Amin, Kamon Ayeva

Overview of this book

Type-driven development is an approach that uses a static type system to achieve results including safety and efficiency. Types are used to express relationships and other assumptions directly in the code, and these assumptions are enforced by the compiler before the code is run. Learn Type-Driven Development covers how to use these type systems to check the logical consistency of your code. This book begins with the basic idea behind type-driven development. You’ll learn about values (or terms) and how they contrast with types. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll cover how to combine types and values inside modules and build structured types out of simpler ones. You’ll then understand how to express choices or alternatives directly in the type system using variants, polymorphic variants, and generalized algebraic data types. You’ll also get to grips with sum types, build sophisticated data types from generics, and explore functions that express change in the types of values. In the concluding chapters, you’ll cover advanced techniques for code reuse, such as parametric polymorphism and subtyping. By end of this book, you will have learned how to iterate through a type-driven process of solving coding problems using static types, together with dynamic behavior, to obtain more safety and speed.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Unit testing our code (final version)

Now is the time to add tests to our code! For a complete demonstration, let's create a new package in which we will do the necessary setup for writing unit tests with the Jest framework.

Another web technology used at Facebook, Jest is a framework for writing tests for JavaScript code, which also works with compile-to-JavaScript languages, such as TypeScript or ReasonML. For Reason, we also need to install the bs-jest package, which provides bindings for Jest in BuckleScript.

Creating our final package and setting up for tests

To quickly get things working, we create a folder, called Ch10-final, which contains the following file structure:

bsconfig.json
package.json
src
__tests__

We...