TypeScript Patterns for Angular
Since version 2 of the framework, Angular is based on TypeScript for its development, both internally and for those who use it to build applications.
This was a controversial decision at the time, as this JavaScript superset, created by Microsoft, was new. Nowadays, most web frameworks, such as React, Vue.js, and Svelte, support TypeScript, and some web frameworks actively recommend TypeScript as the language to use.
In this chapter, we will study the best practices and patterns for using TypeScript with Angular and beyond; these techniques can be applied to Node.js backend development and even other web frameworks, such as React and Vue.js.
We’ll learn how to better declare our application’s methods and functions and how to leverage TypeScript’s type inference mechanism to make our classes less verbose.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:
- Creating classes and types
- Creating...
