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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)

Summary

This chapter was once again packed with content. Congratulations on making it this far!

We started by learning about what modern web applications are all about and how they differ from old-school ones. We learned about the differences between SSR and SPA. We also briefly talked about mobile-first, RWD, and PWA.

These ideas are all at the core of the modern web and any developer who is serious about building web applications should learn as much as possible about these concepts.

Following that, we defined what modern web frameworks can do for us. This, of course, led us into the main topic of this chapter: Angular!

Before diving into it, we finally discovered a bit more about TypeScript decorators, which are extensively used by Angular.

Given that Angular is a large framework, we had to introduce many concepts and ideas, such as modules, components, templates, bindings...