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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)

Routing

Like Angular and React, Vue.js has its own router. Vue's official router library is called the Vue Router (https://router.vuejs.org). Vue Router offers a really easy-to-use solution for managing routing on the client side with Vue.js.

While covering Angular in the previous chapters, we couldn't look at its router due to space constraints. In the next chapter, we'll take some time to introduce routing so that we can structure our application and learn how to leverage this important concept of modern web applications.

As we'll see, the router will allow us to split our application into multiple pages and associate each of those with a specific route (URL). The Vue Router is a URL router, as opposed to a state router, like the Angular router is. If you already know about Angular's router, you'll quickly see the difference between them.

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