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TypeScript Succinctly - Free [Name/email-ware] eBook

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The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the ability to use HTML and JavaScript to create Windows Store apps, led Microsoft to develop TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript. Though the messiness of JavaScript causes many .NET developers to avoid the language, Microsoft's additions extend many familiar features of .NET programming to JavaScript. With TypeScript Succinctly by Steve Fenton, you will learn how TypeScript provides optional static typing and classes to JavaScript development, how to create and load modules, and how to work with existing JavaScript libraries through ambient declarations. TypeScript is even significantly integrated with Visual Studio to provide the autocompletion and type checking you are most comfortable with.

Table of Contents

Concepts in TypeScript

Visual Studio

Type Safety

Creating New Modules

Loading Modules

Working with Existing JavaScript

Unit Testing with TypeScript

Summary

Appendix A: Alternative Development Tools

Appendix B: TypeScript Command Line

Appendix C: External Resources

Here's a snip from the PDF;

Whenever the word JavaScript is mentioned to a room full of .NET developers, there are visible shudders and uncomfortable fidgeting at the prospect of writing anything in such a sloppy language. I actually love JavaScript, partly because it was the first curly-braced language that I used, but also because I have learned to use it an appropriate way. However, I can understand the reasons for its lack of popularity amongst the .NET community. If you spend most of your time writing code in C#, VB.NET, or F#, the prospect of using a language that lacks sensible autocompletion, type checking, and object-orientation is not a pleasant one—and this is where TypeScript fits perfectly into the tool belt of a .NET programmer.

Is TypeScript the Answer?
There are no golden bullets in the world of software development. What is certain is that JavaScript is one of the most widely adopted languages on Earth, and it isn’t likely to be disappearing any time soon, especially given its recent emergence as a high-volume web-server language under the Node.js moniker.

TypeScript eases the pain of JavaScript development by adding some of the features that .NET developers take for granted. It is already smoothly integrated into Visual Studio, which makes it easy to use without switching development tools.

I envisage a future where developers don’t need to write boilerplate JavaScript, not because they are using a framework that includes everything they might need to use, but because they can compose a number of small and reusable modules that take care of specific areas, like AJAX, SVG, and Canvas.

Who is This Book For?
I have written this book primarily for professional .NET developers. TypeScript isn’t exclusively for the .NET domain, as Microsoft has released the language under an open source license and there are plug-ins for Sublime Text, Vim, Emacs, and WebStorm, as well as Visual Studio, which has a fully featured extension. You don’t have to be a JavaScript expert to read this book, but if you would like to learn more about it, you can download

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