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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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Node has been rather a game changer in the web application world. One of the reasons for this is the lightweight hardware specifications that are needed to run a Node web server. Traditionally, web server engines, such as Apache, or Microsoft's IIS web server, needed some pretty beefy servers in order to accommodate thousands of HTTP requests per second.

Node, as we have discussed, uses a single-threaded architecture, and each instruction that needs to wait, for any reason, is put onto a queue for processing at a later time. This means that the server is only running a single thread of execution at any particular time, and therefore can handle a large number of simultaneous requests with a surprisingly little amount of CPU or RAM. In the modern age of cloud computing, this means that many more Node web servers can be run on a single piece of physical hardware, compared to other traditional web servers.

Most cloud services, including Azure, Google...