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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

Vue

Vue.js, or just Vue, is a JavaScript framework that has been steadily gaining popularity among the community. Vue describes itself as being "progressive," meaning that the framework can be quickly put to use for user interfaces, but can then be extended to include more and more functionality as required by your Single-Page Application. This extensibility includes features such as routing and advanced state management. Vue was created by Evan You, who was working at Google at the time, and was using AngularJS (or Angular 1) quite extensively. The first official release of Vue was in February 2014.

Version 3 of Vue, which was released in September 2020, was written in TypeScript, and as such, Vue supports TypeScript as a "first-class citizen," to quote the Vue website. While it was possible to use TypeScript and Vue prior to version 3, the integration and support for TypeScript have now become rather seamless.

In this chapter, we will explore the syntax...