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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)

Understanding modules

Before we dive into code, we need to take a step back and discuss some theories.

We will first take a short detour through the history of JavaScript to better understand what modules are and where they come from, before looking at how they're defined in TypeScript.

Why do we need modules?

Modules are a design pattern used to improve the structure, readability, and testability of code. Many programming languages have some level of support for modules. Of course, TypeScript is one of them!

Modules are incredibly useful; thanks to them, you can do the following:

  • Structure code in self-contained blocks (just like sections in a document or chapters in a book).
  • Encapsulate code (since modules are self...