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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)

Angular ToDo App with GraphQL and Apollo

There are many different ways to communicate data backward and forward from the client to the server. In this chapter, we are going to look at how we can use GraphQL to pick data from a server, and then send and mutate data back from an Angular client. We will also look at how we can leverage calculated values from GraphQL. Building on the content of the previous chapter, we will once again be using Angular Material for our user interface to see how we can work with Angular routing to serve up different content.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the GraphQL-to-REST relationship
  • Creating a reusable database class
  • Prefilling data and using singletons
  • Creating a GraphQL schema
  • Setting up GraphQL types using type-graphql
  • Creating a GraphQL resolver with queries and mutations
  • Using Apollo Server as our application...