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Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800564732
Pages 538 pages
Edition 4th Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nathan Rozentals Nathan Rozentals
Profile icon Nathan Rozentals

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Up and Running Quickly 2. Exploring the Type System 3. Interfaces, Classes, Inheritance, and Modules 4. Generics and Advanced Type Inference 5. Asynchronous Language Features 6. Decorators 7. Integration with JavaScript 8. Strict Compiler Options 9. Using Observables to Transform Data 10. Test-Driven Development 11. Angular 12. React 13. Vue 14. Node and Express 15. An AWS Serverless API 16. Micro Front-ends 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Modules

Modularization is a popular technique used in programming languages that allows programs to be built from a series of smaller libraries, or modules. This technique is also applied to object-oriented code bases, where each class is typically housed in its own file. When referencing classes that exist in another source file, we need a mechanism for the TypeScript compiler, as well as the JavaScript runtime, to be able to locate the class that we are referencing. This is where modules are used.

TypeScript has adopted the module syntax that is part of ES2015. This means that we can use this syntax when working with modules, and the compiler will generate the relevant JavaScript to support modules based on the target JavaScript version we have selected. There is no change in syntax, and there is no change in our code in order to support earlier versions of the JavaScript runtime.

In this section of the chapter, we will walk through the module syntax, and discuss how to...

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