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Table of Contents
TypeScript Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with TypeScript
The advantages of TypeScript
Setting up the IDE
Hello World
Command-line compilation
Integrating Visual Studio
Creating a new project
Build options
Summary
2. TypeScript Basics
Types
Functions
Interfaces
Classes
Definitions
Interfaces
Static and instance members
Properties
Enums
Modules
Internal modules
Generic objects
Summary
3. The TypeScript Compiler
Generation of ECMAScript
ECMAScript version
Code manipulation
Controlling compiler output
JavaScript output
Source maps
Advanced options
Summary
4. Object-oriented Programming with TypeScript
The basics
SOLID â object-oriented design
Understanding inheritance
Encapsulation
Abstraction
Polymorphism
Method overloading
Operator overloading
Method overrides
References
Summary
5. Creating a Simple Drawing Application
Setting up the project
The shapes
Basic shapes
Drawing shapes
Making the application interactive
The engine
Mouse events
User options
Summary
6. Declaration Files and Library Integrations
Declaration files
Third-party library integration
Installing NuGet packages
Integrating with jQuery
Integrating with Knockout
Using RequireJS
Summary
7. Enhancing the Drawing Application
Converting to AMD modules
Binding the user controls
Reusable controls
Creating a ViewModel
Generating a single output file
Styling the application
Summary
8. Debugging TypeScript
Debugging
Source maps
Debuggers
Test-driven development
Unit testing
Adding tests
Summary
Index
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Author
Christopher Nance
Reviewers
Andrea Martinelli
Nathan Rozentals
Basarat Ali Syed
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Christopher Nance is an experienced software engineer and has been developing rich web applications for more than 4 years. At KnowledgeLake, he adopted TypeScript to develop a series of reusable components to scale across multiple product offerings and platforms.
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Andrea Martinelli is a passionate software developer who is currently working on Shaman.IO, a tool that automatically detects and extracts structured data from the Web.
In the past, he worked on Songr, a music player and aggregator. His interests span across web data extraction, code performance, and statically typed languages. He is a proficient C# developer and has been interested in TypeScript since its initial announcement. He graduated from the University of Trento in Computer Science and then studied at the Technical University of Denmark, even though he is now dedicating more time to the Shaman.IO project while moving across Europe.
Nathan Rozentals has been writing commercial software for over 23 years, starting with COBOL on mainframes, through C, on to C++ and Java, and finally settling on C# and ASP.NET.
He picked up TypeScript in October 2012âa day after the 0.8.0 releaseâand could not put it down. In TypeScript, he found a language that could bring all of the design patterns and practices he had learned over the yearsâin a variety of languagesâto JavaScript.
Some 6 days after the 0.8.0 release, he began blogging about TypeScript; covering a variety of topics, including unit testing, implementing an IoC container, and organizing code with AMD modules. He knew he had hit the mark when Microsoft themselves started to reference his blog in their CodePlex discussion forums.
You can find his blog at http://blorkfish.wordpress.com.
He currently works in the health industry, bringing touchscreen interfaces to medical systems, thereby enabling BYOD for clinicians and hospital staff.
He is passionate about code quality, unit testing, and continuous integration, and has helped many large teams implement CI across many different software projects in many different languages.
When he is not coding, he loves windsurfing and playing soccer. He is also an avid Liverpool FC supporter.
Basarat Ali Syed (BAS) is a senior developer and the go-to guy for frontend issues at Picnic Software (http://picnicsoftware.com/) in Melbourne, Australia. He has a Master of Computing degree from Australian National University and graduated with high distinction in all courses. He is a familiar face at developer meetups and conferences in Australia and has been a speaker at events such as ALT.NET, DDD Melbourne, MelbJS, and Node.js meetups, among others. He is deeply passionate about web technologies. He is a known member of the TypeScript community and works on the DefinitelyTyped team (https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped). In his spare time, he enjoys bodybuilding, cycling, and maintains a YouTube channel for helping fellow developers (http://youtube.com/basaratali). You can easily find him on Twitter @basarat, www.github.com/basarat, and www.basarat.com.
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