Learning TypeScript 2.x

Key Features

• Learn how to develop modular, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable web applications by taking advantage of TypeScript
• A comprehensive guide that explains the fundamentals of TypeScript with the help of practical examples
• Enhance your web development skills and accelerate your development using TypeScript 2.x

Book Description

TypeScript is an open source and cross-platform typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser or any host. TypeScript adds optional static types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, to enable great tooling and better structuring of large JavaScript applications.

This book is a step-by-step guide that will get you started with TypeScript with the help of practical examples. You start off by understanding the basics and the new features of TypeScript 2.x. Next, you will learn to automate your development workflow with tools such as Grunt. Following this, you will be explained in detail about function, generics, and callbacks. Post this, object-oriented features and the memory management functionality of TypeScript are explained in detail. Going forward, you will be introduced to Functional Programming with TypeScript and will delve into Asynchronous programming principles. Finally, you will be introduced to the performance parameters and will learn to test your application.

By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to implement all the concepts with the latest features of TypeScript to build a single page application from scratch.

What you will learn

• Learn the key TypeScript language features and language runtime
• Develop modular, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable web applications
• Create object-oriented code that adheres to the solid principles
• Save time using automation tools like Gulp, Webpack, Ts node and Karma
• Develop robust applications with testing (Mocha, Chai and SinonJS)
• Put your TypeScript skills into practice by developing a single-page web application framework from scratch
• Use the JavaScript of tomorrow (ES6 and ES7) today with TypeScript

Remo H. Jansen is a web development engineer, open source contributor, entrepreneur, technology lover, gamer, and Internet enthusiast. He is originally from Seville, Spain, but currently lives in Dublin, Ireland, where he has a full-time job in the financial services industry. Remo has been working on large-scale JavaScript applications for the last few years, from flight booking engines to investment and portfolio management solutions. Remo is an active member of the TypeScript community. He is the organizer of the Dublin TypeScript Meet-up and the creator of InversifyJS (an inversion of control container for TypeScript applications) and AtSpy (a test spies framework for TypeScript applications). He also writes a blog about TypeScript and other web technologies at wolk software. Remo has previously worked as a technical reviewer on Mastering TypeScript written by Nathan Rozentals and published by Packt Publishing.