A practical guide for JavaScript developers looking to master TypeScript, featuring tested material from sold-out workshops that covers essential concepts, useful patterns, and common pitfalls, along with hands-on exercises to build a TypeScript application from scratch and confidently tackle real-world programming challenges. Original.
A no-nonsense guide to all the essentials you’ll need to become a TypeScript wizard and build a TypeScript application from scratch.If you're an experienced JavaScript developer or want to level up your current TypeScript skills, with
Total TypeScript, you'll learn everything you need to build a TypeScript product from scratch.
Based on a series of sold-out workshops, the material in
Total TypeScript has been tested by hundreds of developers to ensure their effectiveness and value. You'll explore useful patterns you can immediately apply in your projects and helpful workarounds for TypeScript’s most common pitfalls. Dozens of exercises throughout range from writing solutions from scratch to advanced typing to debugging, so you'll be prepared for the gotchas that appear in real-world applications.
You'll also learn how to:
- Set up a TypeScript development environment and how to leverage its superpower IDE.
- Add types to functions, arrays, and objects, and make reusable types with type aliases
- Express object types, including index signatures, Records, and interfaces
- Take advantage of classic object-oriented patterns in your code
- Configure TypeScript for any situation and powerful features to design your own types
With this straightforward and approachable guide, you'll go from learning the foundations to a TypeScript wizard equipped to handle any TypeScript project that comes your way with confidence.
PART I:
Chapter 1: Kickstart Your TypeScript Setup
Chapter 2: IDE Superpowers
Chapter 3: TypeScript in the Development Pipeline
PART II: Fundamentals
Chapter 4: Essential Types and Annotations
Chapter 5: Unions, Literals, and Narrowing
PART III: Objects, Classes, and Mutability
Chapter 6: Objects
Chapter 7: Mutability
Chapter 8: Classes
Chapter 9: TypeScript-Only Features
PART IV: Working with the Compiler
Chapter 10: Deriving Types
Chapter 11: Annotations and Assertions
Chapter 12: The Weird Parts
PART V: Understanding the Environment
Chapter 13: Modules, Scripts, and Declaration Files
Chapter 14: Configuring TypeScript
Part VI: Advanced Application Development
Chapter 15: Designing Your Types in TypeScript
Chapter 16: The /utils Folder
Matt Pocock is a TypeScript educator and developer who has worked with Vercel and Stately.ai. He created TotalTypeScript.com, an online learning platform that has taught thousands of developers to master TypeScript.
Taylor Bell is a writer, developer, and researcher with a background in Communication Theory and Computer Science from Boise State University.