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TypeScript 4

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16 hours
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TypeScript is a programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It extends JavaScript by adding optional static typing, making it a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript. This means that any valid JavaScript code is also TypeScript code, but TypeScript allows for the specification of types for variables, functions, and properties. This feature helps developers detect errors early in the development process, improving code quality and maintainability.

Designed to make the development of large-scale applications more manageable, TypeScript is versatile enough for use in developing both client-side and server-side (using Node.js) JavaScript applications. Its integration with popular JavaScript frameworks and libraries, along with powerful tools like type checking and autocomplete suggestions, enhances the development experience and productivity.

The adoption of TypeScript has grown significantly, with many in the development community embracing its benefits for projects ranging from small to enterprise-level applications. Its compatibility with existing JavaScript code and the ease of incrementally adopting typing in projects make TypeScript a valuable tool for developers looking to enhance their JavaScript applications with the benefits of static typing.

Courses in this path

Beginner

Learn the use case for TypeScript and create your first declaration file.

TypeScript: The Big Picture

by Simon Allardice
44m
(871)

TypeScript 4: Getting Started

by Brice Wilson
3h 2m
(507)

Intermediate

Take a deeper dive into TypeScript through advanced configurations, debugging, decorators, and types.

Creating Object-oriented TypeScript Code

by Dan Wahlin
2h 11m
(147)

Creating Asynchronous TypeScript Code

by John Papa
1h 51m
(134)

Configuring, Compiling, and Debugging TypeScript 4 Projects

by Daniel Stern
2h 7m
(37)

Using TypeScript 4 Modules

by Dan Wellman
1h 25m
(76)

Creating and Using Generics in TypeScript 4

by Brice Wilson
49m
(241)

Creating and Using TypeScript 3 Decorators

by David Tucker
1h 14m
(107)

Using Specialized Types and Language Features in TypeScript

by Hendrik Swanepoel
1h 32m
(87)

Creating a TypeScript 3 Declaration File

by Matthew Kruczek
1h 29m
(39)

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How To Create a New TypeScript Project
The TypeScript Compiler
TypeScript Modules
TypeScript Generics
TypeScript Decorators
Static Types
Advanced Types and Language Features
How to Debug
How to Create Declaration Files
Object-oriented Techniques
Asynchronous Coding Patterns

Experience

JavaScript Knowledge: Since TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, having a good grasp of JavaScript fundamentals is crucial. Understanding variables, control structures, data structures (like arrays and objects), functions, and the event-driven model of JavaScript lays a solid foundation for picking up TypeScript.
Basic Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): Familiarity with OOP concepts such as classes, objects, inheritance, and interfaces can be advantageous. TypeScript enhances JavaScript by adding features more commonly found in traditional OOP languages, like static typing and interfaces.
HTML & CSS: For web development projects involving TypeScript, knowledge of HTML and CSS is important to effectively manipulate the DOM and ensure your web applications look as intended.
Familiarity with Node.js and npm (Node Package Manager): Knowledge of Node.js is helpful, especially for setting up TypeScript projects, running TypeScript compilers, or working on server-side applications. npm or Yarn (another package manager) are commonly used to manage project dependencies, including the TypeScript compiler itself.
Basic Command-Line Skills: Comfort with using the command line or terminal is beneficial for executing TypeScript compilation commands, managing version control, and using other development tools that integrate with TypeScript.

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Simon Allardice

Simon is Creative Director and Principal Author at Pluralsight. With over three decades of software development experience, he's programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. Prior to joining Pluralsight, Simon was the principal developer author at lynda.com. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. His current focus is both on the new — the latest... more

Brice Wilson

Brice Wilson has been a professional developer for over 30 years and has used many tools and programming languages during that time. He has worked as a developer and architect for a number of large companies and enjoys learning, experimenting with, and teaching new technologies. His current interests are centered on server and client-side web development.

Dan Wahlin

Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting, which provides consulting and training services on JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is a Google GDE (and former Microsoft MVP and Regional Director), Docker Captain, and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Dan is active on Twitter (@DanWahlin), blogs at https://blog.codewithdan.com, and adds a lot of code to his Github repos at https://github.com/danwahlin.

John Papa

John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications ans systems that you may have used. His passions are coding and teaching modern web technologies, running, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast... more

Daniel Stern

Daniel Stern is a coder, web developer and programming enthusiast from Toronto, Ontario, where he works as a freelance developer and designer. Daniel has been working with web technologies since the days of the dial-up, and is especially keen on JavaScript, CSS, Angular, React and TypeScript. Over the course of his work as an open-source developer, he's created many community-standards web tools including Angular Audio and Range.CSS. His tool, Range.CSS, was featured in a guest article on CSS-T... more

Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman is a web developer, author, and course instructor from the UK. He has been a developer for just over 15 years, and has been writing and making videos about his experiences for almost as long. He has written 10 books about JavaScript libraries and TypeScript, and produced around 50 video courses on front-end development. He is currently a Senior UI Developer for Hazeltree Treasury Solutions, and lives on the South Coast of the UK with his wife and four children.

David Tucker

David is a Webby Award winning cloud development consultant that focuses on cloud native web, mobile, and IoT applications. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others). David regularly writes and speaks on the digital landscape with published works for O'Reilly and Lynda.com. He has written for Mashable,... more

Hendrik Swanepoel

Hendrik kicked off his career in 2000 installing MS Outlook on PCs in coal mines throughout South Africa. Seriously. He had to wear a hard hat and everything. Luckily he got his foot into the door at a company that allowed him to play around with code. At a desk. Without a hard hat. In his day job Hendrik is a full stack coder from Cape Town, but at night he is a closet designer - meaning, a graphic designer too scared to share it with everyone, not someone that designs closets. For a large part... more

Matthew Kruczek

Matt Kruczek a Senior Manager at EY. Matt has extensive experience in the software industry and is responsible for creating and maintaining any and all architectures and strategies pertaining to the mobile, web and AI disciplines. He has architected and developed several end-to-end Line of Business applications using a variety of Microsoft Technologies including WCF, WPF, ASP.NET , C#, VB, MVC, SQL Server, Microsoft Bot Framework and Entity Framework.

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