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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)

What will you build?

Instead of rewriting MediaMan from scratch, we are going to port the existing code step by step. This will let us focus on the Angular way of doing things.

We will start by creating a new application using the Angular CLI. Then, we will integrate our existing data model, services, and visual elements, making sure that we leverage the Angular concepts that we learned about in the previous chapter.

We will go through two stages. During the first iteration, we will create MediaMan v2, which will keep the same user interface as before. After that, we will add Angular Material to the project and then we'll recreate the user interface using Angular Material components.

From a functional point of view, our application will remain exactly the same as before, but it'll have a better code structure and a nicer user interface. As an added benefit, any other...