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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

Modules

Modularization is a popular technique used in programming languages that allows programs to be built from a series of smaller libraries, or modules. This technique is also applied to object-oriented code bases, where each class is typically housed in its own file. When referencing classes that exist in another source file, we need a mechanism for the TypeScript compiler, as well as the JavaScript runtime, to be able to locate the class that we are referencing. This is where modules are used.

TypeScript has adopted the module syntax that is part of ES2015. This means that we can use this syntax when working with modules, and the compiler will generate the relevant JavaScript to support modules based on the target JavaScript version we have selected. There is no change in syntax, and there is no change in our code in order to support earlier versions of the JavaScript runtime.

In this section of the chapter, we will walk through the module syntax, and discuss how to...