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TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Theofanis Despoudis
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TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Theofanis Despoudis

Overview of this book

Design patterns are critical armor for every developer to build maintainable apps. TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a one-stop guide to help you learn design patterns and practices to develop scalable TypeScript applications. It will also serve as handy documentation for future maintainers. This book takes a hands-on approach to help you get up and running with the implementation of TypeScript design patterns and associated methodologies for writing testable code. You'll start by exploring the practical aspects of TypeScript 4 and its new features. The book will then take you through the traditional gang of four (GOF) design patterns in their classic and alternative form and show you how to use them in real-world development projects. Once you've got to grips with traditional design patterns, you'll advance to learning about their functional programming and reactive programming counterparts and how to couple them to deliver better and more idiomatic TypeScript code. By the end of this TypeScript book, you'll be able to efficiently recognize when and how to use the right design patterns in any practical use case and gain the confidence to work on scalable and maintainable TypeScript projects of any size.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with TypeScript 4
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Section 2: Core Design Patterns and Concepts
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Section 3: Advanced Concepts and Best Practices

Summary

Within this chapter, we explored the fundamental concepts of functional programming and explored some practical examples. Those concepts constitute the backbone of functional programming in general.

We started by understanding the concepts of purity, function composition, and immutability. We noted practical examples of recursion and discovered the benefits of referential transparency. We resumed our exploration with practical functional programming constructs, starting with lenses, which form an abstraction over getters and setters, after which, we learned how transducers can be used to process infinite streams of data in a chain without loss of performance. Finally, we looked at monads and their crucial helpfulness in constructing composable structures at scale.

Utilizing these concepts will support you in structuring your code in a pleasant, abstract way with scalability in mind. In the subsequent chapter, you will learn how reactive programming can help us deliver...