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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

By : Nathan Rozentals
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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

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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

Building a micro front-end application

In this section of the chapter, we will go ahead and build our micro front-end application, and combine our Angular, React, and Vue front-ends into an application that behaves like a single store front. We will also integrate our front-ends with the REST API that we built in Chapter 15, An AWS Serverless API. This will ensure that both the React Product List front-end and the Vue Shopping Cart front-end work off the same list of products, as exposed by the /products endpoint.

In a production front-end, the general idea is that each application is a "silo," and therefore has its own REST endpoints and databases, in such a way that each team has the freedom to modify any piece of their architecture without affecting other front-ends. In reality, though, there will always be some sort of shared data that all front-end applications may need access to. As an example, a store of registered users might be shared across front-ends, or a...