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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)

Introducing RP and RxJS

One programming paradigm that we haven't talked about so far but that Angular heavily relies on/encourages is called Reactive Programming (RP) or, more specifically, Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).

RP is not new at all; its principles have been described and studied since the early 1970s. RP and FRP have gained a lot of traction in recent years thanks to the rise of microservice-based architectures and the decline of Moore's law (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/end-of-moores-law-its-not-just-about-physics). With the now much slower yearly increase in raw CPU power, the alternative is to develop systems that can take advantage of more CPUs or CPU cores through parallelism and workload distribution.

The RP paradigm is based on the idea that, most of the time, we can treat/manipulate inputs and outputs as streams of events/data...