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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 Material Design and Angular Material

Creating a great user interface design system is insanely hard and most of us don't have the skills, experience, or simply time to go about creating a decent one. Luckily for us, Google's world-class designers have created Material Design (https://material.io).

Material Design is an open design specification created by Google and publicly announced in 2014. Nowadays, most Google products (including Android mobile applications) are based on it.

Material Design was built with mobile-first and adaptive user interfaces in mind. It provides a great starting point for anyone looking to create modern user experiences that work seamlessly on desktop and mobile.

If you take a look at the official website, you'll see that it covers many topics, such as how to handle layout, navigation, colors, typography, iconography, shapes...