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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

For our last Angular application, we are going to go to town and use Bing mapping services to display the types of maps we are used to using on a daily basis to search for locations. We will go even further and use Microsoft's Local Insights services to search for a particular business type in the currently visible map area. This is one of the two applications that excited me the most when I was putting together the plan for this book because I have a love for map-based systems.

As well as displaying maps, we are going to be able to select points of interest on the map by clicking directly on the map. These points will be represented by colored pins. We will save the location of these points, along with their name, in a cloud-based database from Google.

This application should take about an hour to complete, as long as you work alongside the code on GitHub...