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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 our mock layout

Once we have our requirements, it is normally a good idea to draw up some rough drafts of what we think the layout of our application should be. What we want to do is to create a layout that shows we are using a web browser layout in a sketch format. The reason we want it to look as though it is sketched is because of the way we interact with our clients. We want them to get an idea about the rough layout of our application without getting caught up in details such as exactly how wide a particular button is.

What is particularly useful is the ability to use a tool such as https://ninjamock.com/ to create a wireframe sketch of our interface. These sketches can be shared online with clients or other team members who can directly add comments. The following sketch diagram demonstrates what we want our interface to look like when we are finished:

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