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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored the use of decorators within TypeScript. We started by setting up our environment to make use of decorators, and then discussed the syntax used to apply decorators. We learned that we can apply decorators to classes, class properties, class methods, and even class parameters. Each of these decorators has its own set of required parameters and parameter types, based on where it is to be used. We then discussed the use of decorators and saw how we can build an audit log trail using method decorators. In the final part of this chapter, we took a look at decorator metadata, and how this metadata provides additional information about our classes at runtime. In the next chapter, we will explore the integration between TypeScript and JavaScript, and how these two languages can co-exist within the same project.