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The TypeScript Workshop

By : Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matt Morgan, Vekoslav Stefanovski
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Book Image

The TypeScript Workshop

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By: Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matt Morgan, Vekoslav Stefanovski

Overview of this book

By learning TypeScript, you can start writing cleaner, more readable code that’s easier to understand and less likely to contain bugs. What’s not to like? It’s certainly an appealing prospect, but learning a new language can be challenging, and it’s not always easy to know where to begin. This book is the perfect place to start. It provides the ideal platform for JavaScript programmers to practice writing eloquent, productive TypeScript code. Unlike many theory-heavy books, The TypeScript Workshop balances clear explanations with opportunities for hands-on practice. You’ll quickly be up and running building functional websites, without having to wade through pages and pages of history and dull, dry fluff. Guided exercises clearly demonstrate how key concepts are used in the real world, and each chapter is rounded off with an activity that challenges you to apply your new knowledge in the context of a realistic scenario. Whether you’re a hobbyist eager to get cracking on your next project, or a professional developer looking to unlock your next promotion, pick up a copy and make a start! Whatever your motivation, by the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence and understanding to make it happen with TypeScript.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface

Summary

Asynchronous programming has come a long way in the past 10 years and the introduction of async/await has continued to move it forward. Although not perfect for every use case, this syntactic sugar has proven very popular with the TypeScript community and has gained widespread acceptance in popular libraries and frameworks.

In this chapter, we went over async/await syntax, how it came to be part of the language, and how the use of this syntax is actually complimentary to promises. We then toured several popular frameworks in use by TypeScript developers to see how application developers use promises and asynchronous programming to develop powerful web applications.

This concludes this book's study of language features. The next chapter will look at React for building user interfaces using TypeScript.