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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)

Creating a Bing Maps application using Angular and Firebase

One of the fastest-growing application types over the last few years has been the explosion of mapping applications, whether for your satnav system or running Google Maps on your phone. Underneath these applications lie mapping services that have been developed by companies such as Microsoft or Google. We are going to use the Bing Maps services to add mapping support to our application.

Our mapping application has the following requirements:

  • Clicking on a location will add that location as a point of interest
  • When a point of interest is added, an information box will be displayed, showing details about it
  • Clicking on a point of interest again will delete it
  • Points of interest will be saved to a database
  • The user will be able to move the point of interest, updating details in the database
  • Where available, business information...