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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)
1
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

Introducing design patterns in TypeScript

You have explored how to develop server-side applications in TypeScript and now you are ready to study design patterns in detail one by one. We can conclude this chapter by introducing design patterns and grasping why they are still relevant today.

Since the original design patterns book that was published in 1994, many engineering practices have changed. This does not mean they should be devalued as anachronistic or irrelevant. Preferably, they should be regarded and evaluated in terms of the current programming language criteria and best practices.

Why design patterns exist

A design pattern by definition is a systematic and repeatable solution for combating recurring problems when constructing software applications. Developing software is regarded as a very complex and sophisticated operation and there are many right or wrong ways to do it properly. It completely depends on the problem you require to resolve or what is required to...