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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)

Project overview

The classic socket-based application is creating a chat room. It's almost the Hello World of socket applications. The reason that a chat room is so useful for this is because it allows us to explore techniques such as sending messages to other users, reacting to messages from other users, and using rooms to separate where chats are sent.

Material design played a large part in its development over the past couple of chapters, so now is a suitable time for us to return to Bootstrap 4 and see how we can use it to lay out the interface in an Angular application. We will also work with Socket.IO at the client and the server to enable bi-directional communication. Something that has been lacking in previous chapters has been the ability to authenticate the user. In this chapter, we are going to bring in authentication support by signing up to use Auth0 (https:...