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Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers

By : Francesco Abbruzzese
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Book Image

Hands-On TypeScript for C# and .NET Core Developers

5 (1)
By: Francesco Abbruzzese

Overview of this book

Writing clean, object-oriented code in JavaScript gets trickier and complex as the size of the project grows. This is where Typescript comes into the picture; it lets you write pure object-oriented code with ease, giving it the upper hand over JavaScript. This book introduces you to basic TypeScript concepts by gradually modifying standard JavaScript code, which makes learning TypeScript easy for C# ASP.NET developers. As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover object programming concepts, such as classes, interfaces, and generics, and understand how they are related to, and similar in, both ES6 and C#. You will also learn how to use bundlers like WebPack to package your code and other resources. The book explains all concepts using practical examples of ASP.NET Core projects, and reusable TypeScript libraries. Finally, you'll explore the features that TypeScript inherits from either ES6 or C#, or both of them, such as Symbols, Iterables, Promises, and Decorators. By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply all TypeScript concepts to understand the Angular framework better, and you'll have become comfortable with the way in which modules, components, and services are defined and used in Angular. You'll also have gained a good understanding of all the features included in the Angular/ASP.NET Core Visual Studio project template.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Template life cycle events

While each application runs, Angular automatically creates, modifies, and destroy components and their associated HTML. Since developer initialization and cleaning up the code must be synchronized with the preceding Angular processing stages, Angular exposes events all components and directives must use to run initialization, update, and cleanup at the right time.

There are lifetime events that are triggered just once in the life of each component/directive instance, and update events that are linked to the Angular change detection process (sketched in Chapter 10, Angular ASP.NET Core Project Template). Lifetime events are used by all developers the most, since they allow proper component/directive initialization and enable the developer to modify the HTML code generated by Angular, for instance, by adding non-Angular widgets. Update events are less...