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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

Design concepts

So what exactly is a micro front-end application? In theory, it involves breaking down our websites into smaller functional pieces, which are independently deployed and managed. Breaking up a website in this way means thinking about "silos" of functionality that are self-contained and are able to function as if completely independent of other areas of the site.

Designing an application using micro front-ends has its benefits, but it will also present us with a few unique challenges. It is best suited to websites where a number of different teams are working together to produce a single user experience. There may be a team that is solely focused on products and product management. This team would be responsible for building a front-end that shows what products are available on the site.

They may need to implement a search algorithm, for example, or need to show current specials that are available to a certain geographic region. The team that handles...