Peter OHanlon - Advanced TypeScript programming projects : build 9 different apps with TypeScript 3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue

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Peter O'Hanlon has been a professional developer for nearly 30 years. In this time, he has developed desktop and web applications of all types and sizes. During his development career, Peter has worked with languages such as C, C++, BASIC, Pascal, and JavaScript. For the last 18 years or so, Peter has concentrated on C# WPF, JavaScript, and now TypeScript. Over the years, Peter has been a Code Project MVP several times, a member of the Intel Innovator program, as well as competing in the Intel Ultimate Coder 2 contest. Peter is always keen to embrace new technologies and languages, which has led him to be actively involved in technologies such as augmented and mixed reality, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and gesture recognition.

Nadun Indunil is a software engineer at Sysco Labs, Sri Lanka. As a software engineer, he is responsible for the development and management of AWS-related software and tools. He holds a BSc (Hons.) degree in engineering from the University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka). Nadun is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and an open source contributor. He has contributed to many open source JavaScript projects, and maintains a few as well.

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This is a book about TypeScript; but then again, you got that from the title. But it's more than just a book about TypeScript. This is a book about how TypeScript can be used to go beyond basic examples. That means that this is a book about topics that are just that little bit harder than you might already have covered in your first forays into the world of TypeScript.

So, we could probably rephrase that opening sentence to "This is a book about TypeScript and some of the fun and cool ways that you can use TypeScript with technologies that are more advanced than ones I've been using before".

Upfront, I will say that this book is not a book about how to program in Angular, React, Vue, or ASP.NET Core. Those are big topics that deserve their own separate books (indeed, at the end of each chapter, I do my best to point you toward other resources that will help you learn these technologies on a much deeper level than the brief chapters we will have on them). Instead, for Angular and React, I try to limit the introduction of new features to no more than five new concepts per chapter. Where we are using a technology such as Bootstrap, which has a technology-specific implementation, we will use the library that is most appropriate , such as reactstrap for React . We do this because these libraries have been designed to work with the user interface (UI