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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

Generics and Advanced Type Inference

Thus far, we have been exploring the type system within TypeScript, and how it relates to interfaces, classes, and primitive types. We have also explored how to use various language features to mix and match these types, including type aliases and type guards. All of the techniques we have used, however, eventually boil down to writing code that will work with a single particular type. This is how we achieve type safety within TypeScript.

But what if we would like to write some code that will work with any sort of type, or any sort of interface or class definition? Perhaps a function that needs to find an element in a list, where the list could be made of strings, or numbers, or any other type. This is where generics come into play. Generics provide a mechanism to write code that does not need to specify a specific type. It is left up to the caller of these generic functions or classes to specify the type that the generic will be working with...