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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)

Revisiting LyricsFinder

In this chapter, we will take advantage of everything that we learned about in the previous chapter to revisit the LyricsFinder application.

We will leverage React, NestJS, GraphQL, and Apollo to create an awesome version of our application.

Let's see what topics are in store for us in this chapter:

  • Building our application with React
  • High-level design and technical stack
  • Getting started with the project
  • Backend – adding the necessary dependencies
  • Backend – implementing the GraphQL API with a first resolver
  • Backend – importing and configuring the GraphQL NestJS module
  • Backend – testing the API using the GraphQL playground
  • Backend – adding support for artists and lyrics
  • Frontend – installing React Bootstrap
  • Frontend – installing React Router
  • Frontend – creating the home view skeleton
  • Frontend...