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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)

Loading and bundling modules

As we've just seen, there are now quite a few module specifications. Not all of them can be loaded natively, depending on the target environment. Also, within a single application, you might have dependencies using different module types and this isn't easy to handle without getting into trouble.

Currently, to make this possible, we often need to use tools. There are two categories of tools that we should briefly discuss: module loaders and bundlers.

Module loaders

Module loaders take care of loading modules at runtime. Different loaders support different combinations of module formats. They are useful as soon as your target environment cannot load all the modules that you intend to make...