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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

By : Nathan Rozentals
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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

4.7 (3)
By: Nathan Rozentals

Overview of this book

TypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript, designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Mastering Typescript is a golden standard for budding and experienced developers. With a structured approach that will get you up and running with Typescript quickly, this book will introduce core concepts, then build on them to help you understand (and apply) the more advanced language features. You’ll learn by doing while acquiring the best programming practices along the way. This fourth edition also covers a variety of modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks, comparing their strengths and weaknesses. You'll explore Angular, React, Vue, RxJs, Express, NodeJS, and others. You'll get up to speed with unit and integration testing, data transformation, serverless technologies, and asynchronous programming. Next, you’ll learn how to integrate with existing JavaScript libraries, control your compiler options, and use decorators and generics. By the end of the book, you will have built a comprehensive set of web applications, having integrated them into a single cohesive website using micro front-end techniques. This book is about learning the language, understanding when to apply its features, and selecting the framework that fits your real-world project perfectly.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Index

The testing paradigm

Test-driven development (TDD) is really a way of thinking, or a paradigm if you like, that should be baked into any standard development process. This paradigm starts with tests and drives the momentum of a piece of production code through these tests. TDD means asking the question "How do I know that I have solved the problem?", instead of just "How do I solve the problem?". This is an important idea to grasp. We write code in order to solve a problem, but we should also be able to prove that we have solved the problem through the use of automated tests.

The basic steps of a test-driven approach are as follows:

  • Write a test that fails.
  • Run the test to ensure that it fails.
  • Write code to make the test pass.
  • Run the test to see that it now passes.
  • Run all tests to see that the new code does not break other tests.
  • Repeat.

Using TDD is really a mindset. Some developers follow this approach...