Ultimate Typescript Handbook

This book provides a comprehensive guide to TypeScript, a programming language that extends JavaScript with powerful features like static typing, classes, and interfaces. The book is divided into thirteen chapters that cover everything from setting up a development environment to building an Angular app with TypeScript. 

We start with an introduction to TypeScript and its benefits and go on to explain how TypeScript can help developers write more maintainable, scalable code and catch errors before they make it to production. The book then dives into more technical topics like basic type annotations, using the TypeScript compiler, advanced features like enums and interfaces, and manipulating types. 

The book then discusses chapters on classes and control flow analysis that are particularly helpful for developers looking to build more complex applications. The book teaches by example, with numerous code examples that illustrate the main concepts and approaches towards writing TypeScript programs and codes, and finishes with a comprehensive practical example that shows step-by-step development of  a modern web application using TypeScript and Angular.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Chapter 1: Introduction to TypeScript and its Benefits

Chapter 2: Setting Up a Development Environment

Chapter 3: Basic Type Annotations

Chapter 4: Using the TypeScript Compiler

Chapter 5: Enums, Interfaces, and Namespaces

Chapter 6: Objects, Arrays, and Tuples in TypeScript

Chapter 7: Functions in TypeScript

Chapter 8: Classes in TypeScript

Chapter 9: Control Flow Analysis

Chapter 10: Manipulating Types

Chapter 11: TypeScript Modules

Chapter 12: Creating Declaration Files

Chapter 13: TypeScript Project: Creating an Angular App