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TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Theofanis Despoudis
Book Image

TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Theofanis Despoudis

Overview of this book

Design patterns are critical armor for every developer to build maintainable apps. TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices is a one-stop guide to help you learn design patterns and practices to develop scalable TypeScript applications. It will also serve as handy documentation for future maintainers. This book takes a hands-on approach to help you get up and running with the implementation of TypeScript design patterns and associated methodologies for writing testable code. You'll start by exploring the practical aspects of TypeScript 4 and its new features. The book will then take you through the traditional gang of four (GOF) design patterns in their classic and alternative form and show you how to use them in real-world development projects. Once you've got to grips with traditional design patterns, you'll advance to learning about their functional programming and reactive programming counterparts and how to couple them to deliver better and more idiomatic TypeScript code. By the end of this TypeScript book, you'll be able to efficiently recognize when and how to use the right design patterns in any practical use case and gain the confidence to work on scalable and maintainable TypeScript projects of any size.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with TypeScript 4
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Section 2: Core Design Patterns and Concepts
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Section 3: Advanced Concepts and Best Practices

Summary

In this concluding chapter, we explored some of the most important caveats and anti-patterns when working with TypeScript. In general terms, TypeScript is very adaptive as a language and accepts alternative programming models. However, you should strive to avoid confusion when developing with types, prefer plain functions and types over classes, and leverage type inference when needed.

This concludes our book TypeScript 4 Design Patterns and Best Practices. Throughout this book, we explored the practical details of creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns, studied functional and reactive programming concepts, and discussed some best practices for TypeScript development.

Now it's up to you how you utilize the content of this book in your everyday work. For example, while designing new applications or when discussing TypeScript best practices with your colleagues, you are now armed with a deep understanding of the benefits and caveats of each pattern...