TypeScript 2.x By Example: Build engaging applications with TypeScript, Angular, and NativeScript on the Azure platform - Softcover

Ohri, Sachin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787280039 ISBN 13: 9781787280038

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Leverage the power of Typescript 2.0 using real-world examples

Key Features

• Begin with the fundamentals of TypeScript and learn how to write better JavaScript code
• Build three amazing applications throughout the book
• Leverage the power of tools such as Angular 2 and NativeScript to build for the web as well as for mobile

Book Description

The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles.

This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you’ll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You’ll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You’ll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast.

By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level.

What you will learn

• Design your first project in Visual Studio
• Learn about the different data types in TypeScript
• Create web applications in an object-oriented fashion using TypeScript
• Build a Trello application using TypeScript's complex features.
• Explore the tools available in a web application ecosystem to write unit test cases
• Deploy web applications to cloud and assign resources to the application

Who This Book Is For

Web developers who would like to learn how to use TypeScript to build amazing applications will benefit from this book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with TypeScript
2. Our First Application – Sport News Combinator
3. Sports News Combinator - Adding Features
4. Sports News Combinator - The Final Version
5. Application 2 -- Trello
6. Trello – Adding features
7. Testing Trello Application
8. Build a Chat Application
9. Trello Mobile - Using NativeScript
10. Deploying Sample Trello on the Cloud using Microsoft Azure

About this title

About the Author

Sachin Ohri is a Technology Architect with a keen interest in web-based technologies. He has been writing web applications for more than a decade, with technologies such as .NET, JavaScript, Durandal, Angular, and TypeScript.

He works on providing technical solutions, including architectural design, technical support, and development expertise, to Fortune 500 companies.

He considers himself a polygot developer willing to learn new languages and technology. Recently, he has been focusing on cloud-based web application development with Microsoft Azure. He holds various Microsoft certifications, such as Microsoft Azure Architect, Microsoft ASP.NET MVC web application, and Microsoft Programming with C#.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787280039
• ISBN 13: 9781787280038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372