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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)

Exploring Angular

Angular (https://angular.io) is the first modern web framework that we'll explore together. Being a framework, you'll see that there is a lot of ground to cover. Consider these sections as introductory material, but don't try to memorize everything right away. Instead, focus on understanding the concepts and come back to the theory when you feel the need to.

What is Angular?

Angular was created at Google and published under an open source license around 2009. It quickly gained popularity due to its ease of use and performance capabilities. The official logo of Angular is as follows:

Angular is tremendously popular and is surrounded by a very large community, which is probably its greatest...