You're reading from Mastering TypeScript Build enterprise-ready, modular web applications using TypeScript 4 and modern frameworks

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564732

Length 538 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Typescript

Tools

Visual Studio

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Nathan Rozentals

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Up and Running Quickly

2. Exploring the Type System FREE CHAPTER

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

Angular

One of the watershed moments in the story of the TypeScript language came when it was announced that the Microsoft and Google teams had been working together on Angular 2. Angular 2 was a much anticipated update to the popular Angular (or Angular 1) single-page application framework, which was written in JavaScript. The Google team that built Angular 2 originally proposed a new language named AtScript, which would allow Angular 2 applications to use newer ECMAScript 6 and 7 language features, and make the Angular 2 syntax cleaner and easier to understand. It was, in fact, intended for AtScript to run on top of TypeScript.

Following several months of collaboration, it was announced that all of the necessary features of the AtScript language would be absorbed into the TypeScript language, and that Angular 2 would be written in TypeScript. This meant that the providers of the language (Microsoft) and the consumers of the language (Google) were able to agree on the requirements...