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Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

By : Sebastien Dubois, Alexis Georges
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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 Vue.js

Now that you've become one of the cool kids that uses Angular, why don't we step it up a notch and learn about one more trendy modern web framework? In this chapter, we will discover Vue.js (https://vuejs.org), as well as its CLI (https://cli.vuejs.org) and the Element (https://element.eleme.io) UI library. We will, of course, take some time to cover the most important aspects of the framework, as well as the surrounding tools and the library ecosystem.

Learning about one more JavaScript web framework will help you get a feel for another way in which you can develop modern web applications that may be more appropriate for certain situations and requirements. You'll also see that Vue.js is similar to Angular in certain aspects, which means that you'll understand most Vue concepts in no time.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics...