INTRODUCTION TO

TYPESCRIPT

TypeScript Background 

Superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

“a layer on top” of JavaScript

Open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft

TypeScript Background 

ES6 : Version 6 of ECMA Script programming language

How TypeScript Works

TSC : TypeScript Compiler

transpiler

TypeScript Features 

Support modern JavaScript features
Static type-checking
Object-Oriented language

Support  modern JavaScript features

JavaScript language (not the runtime) is standardized through the ECMAScript standards.

Not All browsers & JavaScript runtimes support all features 

TypeScript allows use many of the latest ECMAScript features and translates them to older ECMAScript targets of your choosing

TypeScript Features 

Support for modern JavaScript features

Option Type Default Description
--target
-t		 string "ES3" Specify ECMAScript target version:
► "ES3" (default)
► "ES5"
► "ES6"/"ES2015"
► "ES2016"
► "ES2017"
► "ES2018"
► "ES2019"
► "ES2020"
► "ESNext"

Note: "ESNext" targets latest supported ES proposed features.

Compiler Option

TypeScript Features 

Static type-checking

JavaScript is dynamically typed

JavaScript does not know what type a variable is until it is actually instantiated at run-time

TypeScript adds type support to JavaScript

JavaScript TypeScript
var x = "hello"  var x : string = "hello"

Example

TypeScript Features 

Object-Oriented language

Four main principles to Object Oriented Programming:

  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
  • Abstraction
  • Polymorphism

 

TypeScript can implement all four of them with its smaller and cleaner syntax.

TypeScript Features 

WHEN to use TypeScript?

WHEN to use TypeScript?

  • Have a large codebase​​

Codebase is huge, and more than one person works on the project

A type system can help to avoid a lot of common errors

The TypeScript transpiler reveals the most obvious mistakes

WHEN to use TypeScript?

  • TypeScript can serve as a replacement for Babel

Transpile ES6 code into ES5 using the TypeScript transpiler

TypeScript has some cool features that are not in ES6 such as enums and the ability to initialize member variables in a constructor.

In inheritance, it useful to have the public, private, protected, and abstract keywords in classes.

TypeScript has them and ES6 doesn’t.

WHEN to use TypeScript?

  • When you really feel the need for speed

JavaScript code, we had a lot of type checks

Skip a lot of unnecessary runtime type checking.

Even a small error could be literally fatal if it wasn’t dealt with properly. So a lot of functions had statements like:

if(typeof name !== ‘string) throw ‘Name should be string’

TYPESCRIPT vs JAVASRIPT

TYPESCRIPT JAVASCRIPT
Type Strongly
type object-oriented
compile language		 Lightweight,
interpreted
programming language
Language Object-oriented programming language Scripting language
File Extension. . ts, .tsx .js
TYPESCRIPT JAVASCRIPT
Preference
to choose		 > An object-oriented language
> Code more consistency, clean, simple and reusable.
> Better to use typescript
for developing large projects.		 > Preferable to use in relatively small coding projects.
Example






 

TYPESCRIPT vs JAVASRIPT

const message:string =
'Hello Malaysia'
console.log(message)

var message = 'Hello Malaysia';
console.log(message);

 How to get started on TypeScript?

 PROS and CONS of TypeScript?

PROS CONS
Static Typing Required compilation
Avoid Common Errors False sense of security
Compatible with all JavaScript libraries Learning Curve
Refactoring Tools
​Reduce the Amount of Unit Tests

 REFERENCES

Introduction to TypeScript

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