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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

Developing in the server

Now that you know the basics of application development in the browser, you can expand your knowledge into the server side. When working on the server, you have different challenges to solve and because of that, you will have to approach them differently.

It's not that it's more difficult to work in the server compared to the browser, but the approach of those solutions may not be appropriate for all use cases. You may also find that security is more paramount in server environments as they interface with databases that can store private data, secrets, and sensitive or personal information.

Understanding the server environment

In general, when working on the server, you have application code that serves requests over a port (TCP, UDP, or other protocol). A typical case is with an HTTP server but it can be anything in between from internal microservices to internal tools, daemons, and so on. We can identify the following key considerations...