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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)

Learning about modern web applications

Thanks to TypeScript and tools such as npm and Parcel, we've seen how great the developer experience can be nowadays, with the tooling doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes, letting us focus on adding valuable features.

Still, so far in this book, we have only created old-school web applications. If we take a hard look at the user interfaces of the applications that we have created, there's nothing really impressive to brag about.

Don't despair yet, though. Using TypeScript, together with frameworks such as Angular, we can create modern web applications. But what actually are they?

Server-side rendering

Since its inception in the 1990s, the World Wide Web (WWW) has...