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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)

Discovering Angular, Angular Material, and RxJS

In the first half of this book, we covered the crucial aspects of TypeScript, from its powerful type system to its support for modules. Even if you haven't realized it yet, you've actually learned the most important parts of TypeScript already! With that done, we can finally step up our game and start having fun with the language.

We still have a ton to learn together, though, but isn't that where all the fun is?

In the previous chapters, we didn't put a lot of effort into our user interfaces (to say the least). Of course, it wasn't our main focus, but we have to face the truth—it would be hard to reach an acceptable level of quality without having enough CSS experience. Notably, we didn't have any reusable user interface components at our disposal, nor the time to create our own.

The fact is...