Programming TypeScript

Boris Cherny

ISBN 10: 1492037656 / ISBN 13: 9781492037651

Published by O'Reilly Media, US, 2018

About this Item

Any programmer working in a dynamically typed language will tell you how hard it is to scale that language to more lines of code and to more engineers. That's why Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invented gradual static type layers for their dynamically typed JavaScript and Python code. TypeScript is one such type layer, and does something unique among them: it makes programming fun with its powerful, modern, static type system. With this book, programmers who understand JavaScript at an intermediate level will learn how to master the TypeScript language. You'll understand how TypeScript can help you get rid of bugs in your code, scale your code across 10x more engineers, and make programming fun again.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming TypeScript
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492037656
• ISBN 13: 9781492037651
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Any programmer working with a dynamically typed language will tell you how hard it is to scale to more lines of code and more engineers. That’s why Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invented gradual static type layers for their dynamically typed JavaScript and Python code. This practical book shows you how one such type layer, TypeScript, is unique among them: it makes programming fun with its powerful static type system.

If you’re a programmer with intermediate JavaScript experience, author Boris Cherny will teach you how to master the TypeScript language. You’ll understand how TypeScript can help you eliminate bugs in your code and enable you to scale your code across more engineers than you could before.

In this book, you’ll:

• Start with the basics: Learn about TypeScript’s different types and type operators, including what they’re for and how they’re used
• Explore advanced topics: Understand TypeScript’s sophisticated type system, including how to safely handle errors and build asynchronous programs
• Dive in hands-on: Use TypeScript with your favorite frontend and backend frameworks, migrate your existing JavaScript project to TypeScript, and run your TypeScript application in production

About the Author

Boris Cherny is a Software Engineer at Facebook and the organizer of the San Francisco TypeScript Meetup. A longtime JavaScript programmer and functional programming evangelist Boris has started several startups, and led engineering teams in adtech and venture capital. In his free time, you can find him working on open source on Github.