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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored the concepts of test-driven development from the ground up. We have discussed the various types of testing, including unit, integration, and acceptance tests, along with black-box or white-box testing. We then explored the Jest testing framework, how to set it up, and how to use matchers, spies, and mocks. We explored the concepts surrounding asynchronous testing, and also how to inject HTML into the DOM using jsdom. Finally, we explored Protractor and Selenium, which are used for black-box and end-to-end tests of HTML pages.

In the next chapter, we will explore the Angular framework, and how it can be used to write single-page applications in TypeScript.