Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

Learn TypeScript and many of its features by building state of art web applications from scratch with the help of modern tooling, frameworks, and libraries

Key Features

• Create modern Web applications to help businesses around the world benefit from better quality applications
• Learn the latest features of TypeScript 3 and use them wisely
• Explore TDD practices, OOP techniques, and industry best practices to create high-quality and modular apps

Book Description

TypeScript is a superset of the JavaScript programming language, giving developers a tool to help them write faster, cleaner JavaScript. With the help of its powerful static type system and other powerful tools and techniques it allows developers to write modern JavaScript applications.

This book is a practical guide to learn the TypeScript programming language. It covers from the very basics to the more advanced concepts, while explaining many design patterns, techniques, frameworks, libraries and tools along the way. You will also learn a ton about modern web frameworks like Angular, Vue.js and React, and you will build cool web applications using those. This book also covers modern front-end development tooling such as Node.js, npm, yarn, Webpack, Parcel, Jest, and many others. Throughout the book, you will also discover and make use of the most recent additions of the language introduced by TypeScript 3 such as new types enforcing explicit checks, flexible and scalable ways of project structuring, and many more breaking changes.

By the end of this book, you will be ready to use TypeScript in your own projects and will also have a concrete view of the current frontend software development landscape.

What you will learn

• Understand and take advantage of TypeScript's powerful Type System
• Grasp the key concepts and features of Angular, React, Vue.js, and NestJS
• Handle asynchronous processes using Promises, async/await, Fetch, RxJS, and more
• Delve into REST, GraphQL and create APIs using Apollo
• Discover testing concepts, techniques, and tools like TDD, BDD, E2E, Jest
• Learn Object-Oriented and Functional Programming concepts and leverage those with TypeScript
• Explore design practices and patterns such as SOLID, MVC, DI and IoC, LoD, AOP, and more

Who this book is for

This book is for software developers who are willing to discover what TypeScript is and how to leverage it to write great quality software. Developers that are already familiar with TypeScript will find this book useful by learning the languages featured introduced by most recent releases. Basic knowledge of the JavaScript programming is expected.