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Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

By : Nathan Rozentals
Book Image

Mastering TypeScript 3 - Third Edition

By: Nathan Rozentals

Overview of this book

TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript. It was designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Starting with an introduction to the TypeScript language, before moving on to basic concepts, each section builds on previous knowledge in an incremental and easy-to-understand way. Advanced and powerful language features are all covered, including asynchronous programming techniques, decorators, and generics. This book explores many modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks side by side in order for the reader to learn their respective strengths and weaknesses. It will also thoroughly explore unit and integration testing for each framework. Best-of-breed applications utilize well-known design patterns in order to be scalable, maintainable, and testable. This book explores some of these object-oriented techniques and patterns, and shows real-world implementations. By the end of the book, you will have built a comprehensive, end-to-end web application to show how TypeScript language features, design patterns, and industry best practices can be brought together in a real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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TypeScript Tools and Framework Options

Building a dependency injector

In this section of the chapter, we will use the knowledge we have gained in writing a service locator, and combine this with TypeScript decorators in order to create a simple DI framework. Before we do, however, let's discuss the problem of interface resolution.

Interface resolution

As we know, the interface keyword is a TypeScript language construct that we use to define the shape of classes or objects. Wherever we need to define a custom type, and need the TypeScript compiler to ensure that properties and functions are available on an object, we use an interface. Interfaces are particularly handy when describing services, where any number of services could provide the same functionality...