TypeScript Crash Course for Beginners

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on crash course to learning TypeScript. TypeScript is one of the most important tools for JavaScript developers. But some avoid it thinking that it is a chore to have squiggly red lines appear in their code. This practical guide shows how TypeScript actually makes your code better and makes you think like a senior developer.

In the course of this book, we will cover
• Transiting to TypeScript
• Defensive Coding
• Types, Defining Custom Types and Nested Object Types
• Optional Properties
• Unions
• Type Narrowing
• Should we use Any
• Utility Types - Partial and Omit
• Generics and their Application
• and more.

The goal of this book is to teach you TypeScript in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.