Modern TypeScript

Dive into the world of TypeScript, a popular superset of the JavaScript language that enhances the development experience with static typing. This book covers every aspect of TypeScript in a concise and easy-to-understand style, making it the ultimate resource for mastering TypeScript.

Author Ben Beattie-Hood provides comprehensive coverage of TypeScript’s features, such as structural typing, optionality and union types, computed and recursive types, and much more. Each chapter is packed with practical, real-world examples and insider tips drawn from his 20 years of experience as a trainer, ensuring you understand the most important concepts and learn how to avoid common pitfalls.

Modern TypeScript will put you on the path to becoming a TypeScript expert, help you greatly reduce errors, and boost your delivery velocity. Whether you’re building small projects or large-scale applications, this book will give you the skills and confidence to write cleaner, scalable, and more maintainable code. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your TypeScript proficiency and stay at the forefront of modern development.

You will:

• Understand how TypeScript works and how it fits into the JavaScript ecosystem
• Work with the type system, including primitives, interfaces, classes, and functions
• Leverage the advanced type system with mapped and conditional types, in useful real-world examples
• Explore tooling and debugging methods available for TypeScript
• Futureproof development projects for scale using the TypeScript tooling

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Typescript Came to Be

Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Developer Experience

Chapter 3: Typescript Basics

Chapter 4: Classes

Chapter 5: Computed Types

Chapter 6: Advanced Usage

Chapter 7: Performance

Chapter 8: Build

Chapter 9: Wrap Up

About the Author

Ben Beattie-Hood is a principal engineer, trainer and professional mentor with over twenty years of industry experience who currently focuses on front end tech strategy and development and training in React, TypeScript and related technologies. He is passionate about evolvable systems, about creating learning organizations, and about how ideas are formed and communicated. Ben has given a wide range of talks on product development, event sourcing microservices and event storming practice, NoSql database operation, functional programming, front end design and build, as well as specifically in TypeScript. He lives with his beautiful wife and two kids in Melbourne, Victoria, where he loves to hike in the great Australian bush.