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TypeScript 2.x By Example

By : Sachin Ohri
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TypeScript 2.x By Example

By: Sachin Ohri

Overview of this book

The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles. This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you’ll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You’ll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You’ll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast. By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

The not-so-good parts of JavaScript

JavaScript, for all its flexibility and features which make it suitable for web-based applications, has some quirks which, if not understood and implemented correctly, cause applications to have unintended behaviors. If you have done development in JavaScript, you will have read or heard about the good parts of JavaScript, a term made famous by Douglas Crockford, but let's look at the not-so-good parts as well.

Features

The following are the features of JavaScript which should be understood before you can write an effective large-scale application:

  • Type inference
  • Arrays
  • Equality comparison
  • Null and undefined
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