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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

In this chapter, we quickly reviewed programming paradigms, including imperative, procedural, functional, and OO.

Then, we presented OOP principles, such as encapsulation, abstraction, classes and inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, and composition. We also discussed the choice between composition and inheritance.

After that, we discussed UML and OO domain modeling. We saw what class diagrams look like and how they can easily present a design and help to prepare, discuss, and document domain models.

We also briefly reviewed how JavaScript inheritance works.

Afterward, we covered how TypeScript supports OO programming concepts and how to implement classes and interfaces in TypeScript.

We also saw how to define custom types and explained that interfaces have major advantages over custom types.

We learned that TypeScript interfaces only exist at compile time and also...