Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, and understanding how to use it effectively takes time and practice. Using the format popularized by Effective C++ and Effective Java (both Addison-Wesley), this practical book features 85 items that give specific advice on what to do and what not to do, and how to think about the language.

Author Dan Vanderkam shows you how to apply each item's advice through concrete examples. This book will help you advance from a beginning or intermediate user familiar with TypeScript basics to an expert who knows how to use the language well.

  • Learn the nuts and bolts of TypeScript's type system
  • Design types to make your code safer and more understandable
  • Avoid common gotchas in TypeScript
  • Learn how to write idiomatic TypeScript
  • Make tactical use of the any type
  • Understand how dependencies and type declaration files work in TypeScript
  • Learn how to program at the type level using generic types
  • Successfully migrate your JavaScript codebase to TypeScript

Updated for TypeScript 5, this updated second edition includes a new chapter on type-level programming.

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Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, and understanding how to use it effectively takes time and practice. Using the format popularized by Effective C++ and Effective Java (both Addison-Wesley), this practical book features 85 items that give specific advice on what to do and what not to do, and how to think about the language.

Author Dan Vanderkam shows you how to apply each item's advice through concrete examples. This book will help you advance from a beginning or intermediate user familiar with TypeScript basics to an expert who knows how to use the language well.

  • Learn the nuts and bolts of TypeScript's type system
  • Design types to make your code safer and more understandable
  • Avoid common gotchas in TypeScript
  • Learn how to write idiomatic TypeScript
  • Make tactical use of the any type
  • Understand how dependencies and type declaration files work in TypeScript
  • Learn how to program at the type level using generic types
  • Successfully migrate your JavaScript codebase to TypeScript

Updated for TypeScript 5, this updated second edition includes a new chapter on type-level programming.

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Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript

Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript

by Dan Vanderkam
Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript

Effective TypeScript: 83 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript

by Dan Vanderkam

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Overview

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript with the potential to solve many of the headaches for which JavaScript is famous. But TypeScript has a learning curve of its own, and understanding how to use it effectively takes time and practice. Using the format popularized by Effective C++ and Effective Java (both Addison-Wesley), this practical book features 85 items that give specific advice on what to do and what not to do, and how to think about the language.

Author Dan Vanderkam shows you how to apply each item's advice through concrete examples. This book will help you advance from a beginning or intermediate user familiar with TypeScript basics to an expert who knows how to use the language well.

  • Learn the nuts and bolts of TypeScript's type system
  • Design types to make your code safer and more understandable
  • Avoid common gotchas in TypeScript
  • Learn how to write idiomatic TypeScript
  • Make tactical use of the any type
  • Understand how dependencies and type declaration files work in TypeScript
  • Learn how to program at the type level using generic types
  • Successfully migrate your JavaScript codebase to TypeScript

Updated for TypeScript 5, this updated second edition includes a new chapter on type-level programming.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781098155063
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/04/2024
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 401
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dan Vanderkam is an independent software developer, formerly at Google and Sidewalk Labs. He is the author of numerous open source JavaScript/TypeScript libraries, including the dygraphs charting library, source-map-explorer, literate-ts, pg-to-ts and crosswalk. He is the author of Effective TypeScript: 62 Ways to Improve Your TypeScript (O'Reilly 2019) and has spoken at numerous TS conferences. He blogs at effectivetypescript.com.
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