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Learning TypeScript

By : Remo H. Jansen
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Learning TypeScript

By: Remo H. Jansen

Overview of this book

<p>TypeScript is an open source and cross-platform typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser or any host. It allows developers to use the future versions of JavaScript (ECMAScript 6 and 7) today. TypeScript adds optional static types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, to enable great tooling and better structuring of large JavaScript applications.</p> <p>This book is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with TypeScript with the help of practical examples. You start off by understanding the basics of TypeScript. Next, automation tools like Grunt are explained followed by a detailed description of function, generics, callbacks and promises. After this, object-oriented features and the memory management functionality of TypeScript are explained. At the end of this book, you will have learned enough to implement all the concepts and build a single page application from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning TypeScript
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Acknowledgments

This is my first book. It has been a really long journey to get to this day, and, along the way, I had the pleasure of learning a lot from some amazing people who deserve a big thank you.

I would like to start by thanking my teachers from the school of computer science at Salesians of St. Peter in Triana (Seville, Spain) because they made me appreciate the value of education.

To the team at Packt Publishing for their support and hard work; it has been an absolute pleasure to work with you guys.

To the technical reviewers of this book, because their invaluable feedback and hard work really helped to improve the contents of this book.

To my work colleagues and housemates, Sergio Pacheco Gimenez and Adolfo Blanco Diez, for the long technical conversations at midnight and the constant supply of caffeinated beverages.

To my girlfriend, Lorraine, I'm so privileged for your unconditional support and patience. You are simply the best and keep getting better.

Finally, to my family, for always believing in me, for your advice, for being the best listeners, for all your hard work, for forgiving my mistakes, and for all that you have taught me. Thanks for the laughs and thanks for the tears, I'm really proud of being your grandson, son, and brother.