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Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

By : Peter O'Hanlon
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Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

By: Peter O'Hanlon

Overview of this book

With the demand for ever more complex websites, the need to write robust, standard-compliant JavaScript has never been greater. TypeScript is modern JavaScript with the support of a first-class type system, which makes it simpler to write complex web systems. With this book, you’ll explore core concepts and learn by building a series of websites and TypeScript apps. You’ll start with an introduction to TypeScript features that are often overlooked in other books, before moving on to creating a simple markdown parser. You’ll then explore React and get up to speed with creating a client-side contacts manager. Next, the book will help you discover the Angular framework and use the MEAN stack to create a photo gallery. Later sections will assist you in creating a GraphQL Angular Todo app and then writing a Socket.IO chatroom. The book will also lead you through developing your final Angular project which is a mapping app. As you progress, you’ll gain insights into React with Docker and microservices. You’ll even focus on how to build an image classification program with machine learning using TensorFlow. Finally, you’ll learn to combine TypeScript and C# to create an ASP.NET Core-based music library app. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to confidently use TypeScript 3.0 and different JavaScript frameworks to build high-quality apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Building an ASP.NET Core Music Library

This chapter marks a change in direction for us. In previous chapters, we concentrated on using TypeScript as our main development language. In this chapter, we are going to look at how we can use TypeScript inside Microsoft's ASP.NET Core in order to learn how to mix ASP.NET Core, C#, and TypeScript to make an artist-search program where we can search for musicians and retrieve details about their music.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Installing Visual Studio
  • Understanding why we have ASP.NET Core MVC
  • Creating an ASP.NET Core application
  • Understanding why we have Program.cs and Startup.cs
  • Adding TypeScript support to an ASP.NET application
  • Using the fetch promise in TypeScript