TypeScript Blueprints - ebook

Build exciting end-to-end applications with TypeScript

About This Book

• This book will help you whether you're a beginner or an expert
• Complete and complex projects provide codes that are ready and solutions for start-ups and enterprise developers
• The book will showcase the power and depth of TypeScript when it comes to high performance and scalability

Who This Book Is For

This book was written for web developers who wish to make the most of TypeScript and build fun projects. You should be familiar with the fundamentals of JavaScript

What You Will Learn

• Build quirky and fun projects from scratch while exploring widely applicable practices and techniques
• Use TypeScript with a range of different technologies such as Angular 2 and React and write cross-platform applications
• Migrate JavaScript codebases to TypeScript to improve your workflow
• Write maintainable and reusable code that is helpful in the world of programming revolving around features and bugs
• Using System.JS and Webpack to load scripts and their dependencies.
• Developing highly performance server-side applications to run within Node Js.
• Reviewing high performant Node.js patterns and manage garbage collection.

In Detail

TypeScript is the future of JavaScript. Having been designed for the development of large applications, it is being widely incorporated in popular projects such as Angular JS 2.0. Adopting TypeScript results in more robust software, while still being deployable in apps where regular JavaScript would run.

Scale and performance lie at the heart of the projects built in our book. The lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build amazing projects. During the course of this book, you will learn how to build a complete Single Page Application with Angular 2 and create a popular mobile app using NativeScript.

Further on, you will build a classic Pac Man game in TypeScript. We will also help you migrate your legacy codebase project from JavaScript to TypeScript.

By the end of the book, you will have created a number of exciting projects and will be competent using TypeScript for your live projects.

Style and approach

The book focuses on building projects from scratch. These end-to-end projects will give you ready-to-implement solutions for your business scenario, showcasing the depth and robustness of TypeScript.