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Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By : Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges
Book Image

Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By: Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges

Overview of this book

TypeScript is a superset of the JavaScript programming language, giving developers a tool to help them write faster, cleaner JavaScript. With the help of its powerful static type system and other powerful tools and techniques it allows developers to write modern JavaScript applications. This book is a practical guide to learn the TypeScript programming language. It covers from the very basics to the more advanced concepts, while explaining many design patterns, techniques, frameworks, libraries and tools along the way. You will also learn a ton about modern web frameworks like Angular, Vue.js and React, and you will build cool web applications using those. This book also covers modern front-end development tooling such as Node.js, npm, yarn, Webpack, Parcel, Jest, and many others. Throughout the book, you will also discover and make use of the most recent additions of the language introduced by TypeScript 3 such as new types enforcing explicit checks, flexible and scalable ways of project structuring, and many more breaking changes. By the end of this book, you will be ready to use TypeScript in your own projects and will also have a concrete view of the current frontend software development landscape.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

Through our small prototype, we have gone from a simple idea to a concrete application in no time. Of course, LyricsFinder lacks all the bells and whistles that end users would expect from a production application, and there is a lot of room for improvement, but the base functionality is there and the code is simple and easy to understand.

We have created a few SFCs and handled inputs with props as well as outputs using properties and event handlers.

We have also installed the Vue Router library, configured it, and defined a few routes together, allowing us to easily implement navigation within our SPA.

The Element component library has also helped us move forward efficiently. We have seen that it is both very approachable and efficient. The choice of Element was quite arbitrary and, in fact, many other libraries would have been just as good (for example, those that we...