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Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By : Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges
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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

In this last big chapter, you have achieved something quite memorable; you have learned about and used some of the coolest web technology around today. You have now learned about Angular, Vue.js, and React. Not only that, but you have also discovered NestJS, a great framework to build backend systems, which keeps gaining traction.

You have even learned the basics of GraphQL, a modern and more standardized alternative to REST for exposing and consuming data/services on the web.

By building a new version of LyricsFinder using all of these, you have seen how they actually work, which is much more valuable than only understanding the theory behind them.

We saw together that, by introducing Apollo GraphQL and the GraphQL plugin for NestJS into LyricsFinder, we could really quickly create our API, acting as a gateway to the MusixMatch API. This has demonstrated how GraphQL can...