TypeScript Revealed

by Dan Maharry

TypeScript Revealed is a quick 100-page guide to Anders Hejlsberg's new take on JavaScript. With this brief, fast-paced introduction to TypeScript, .NET, Web and Windows 8 application developers who are already familiar with JavaScript will easily get up to speed with TypeScript and decide whether or not to start incorporating it into their own development. TypeScript is ‘JavaScript for Application-scale development’; a superset of JavaScript that brings to it an additional object-oriented-like syntax familiar to .NET programmers that compiles down into simple, clean JavaScript that any browser can run today. It’s also tied to the next version of the JavaScript standard, which means that TypeScript will continue to evolve over time to keep in step with that standard and with the capabilities of the engines that will execute JavaScript applications. If you are a .NET developer, Web designer or developer, or a programmer with a keen interest in scalable applications, TypeScript Revealed is a great way to get started with the language, learn how it compiles into JavaScript, and how easy it is to learn from a .NET/Java developer's perspective.

Genres: Programming

123 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 2013

About the author

I’m a UK-based editor and writer. I’ve worked for Microsoft, Wiley, APress, Wrox, Manning Publications and many others. I love learning how technology works and discovering how best to teach that with words, code, and pictures.

Currently I work for Oxford University Press looking after Children's Dictionaries and the Learning at Home book and online range.

Reviews

[Salvador Gomez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although it is only a 3-chapters, 100-pages book and based on a pre-release of TypeScript, it does a wonderfull job describing the idea, the sintax, the present and past of TypeScript, and in such condensed format.
The only thing I'd liked to see is more practical examples, but it is still a great way of kickstart TypeScript into any project.

[Georgi · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good introduction to the language and its VS-specific tooling. But it could be with the size of a blog post and do exactly the same job.
Furthermore, the book (from the beginning of 2013) is a little out-of-date now - it covers TypeScript 0.8.

[Maciej Szopinski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just an introductory book which can be used as a very early reference guide. Although it was supposed to merely "reveal" the language I was still missing real examples. Not a word on how to deploy TypeScript code to Node.js.

[Soderberg Zuo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is quick start guid to typescript and especially it's suitable to .net developer.

[Evgeniy Vasilev · Rating 3 out of 5]

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