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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)

Implementing the controller layer

The biggest part of our refactoring revolves around the introduction of the controller layer, the orchestrator of our new version.

Creating the TodoListController interface

First, let's define our controller interface, TodoListController. Add it underneath the HTMLTodoListView class:

interface TodoListController { 
    addTodo(): void; 
    filterTodoList(): void; 
    removeTodo(identifier: string): void; 
} 

This interface might surprise you because, apart from the removeTodo method, the methods don't accept parameters. The reason for this is that our view will interact with the controller layer by passing signals to it.

To give you an example, when you click on the Add button...