Jansen - Learning TypeScript

Liviu Ignat is a full-stack developer and architect, technology geek, and entrepreneur, and has been writing commercial software since 2004. He started with VB6, soon moved to .NET Java and then continued moving to frontend web development. He has fun with everything that is a functional language, such as F#, Scala, Swift, JavaScript, and so on. He has been using Typescript for some of his latest projects together with Node.js on the server or with most of the popular frontend frameworks on the client side.

Currently, he is also involved in a number of projects, the most relevant being http://giftdoodle.com/, where he is the CTO of the company, where most of the JavaScript software stack written is also Typescript. During his work experience, he has been involved in building distributed backend services, mostly with .NET and then complex single-page web applications. Recently, he has become a big fan of micro-services with Node.js and Docker, single-page web applications, and native applications for Android and iOS.

When he is not coding, Liviu loves snowboarding during winter, sailing in exotic places during summer, or just traveling the world. You can find and contact Liviu at http://www.ignat.email/.

Jakub Jedryszek works for Microsoft as a software engineer. At the time of reviewing this book, he was working on the Azure Portalthe largest and most complex single-page web application in the world written in TypeScript. He is a cofounder of dotNetConfPLonline conference for .NET Developers. His blog is at http://jj09.net/.

Andrew Leith Macrae first cut his programming teeth on an Apple, poking bytes into RAM. Over the years, he has developed interactive applications with Hypercard, Director, Flash, and, more recently, Adobe AIR for mobile. He has also worked in HTML since there was HTML to work in, and is currently working as a senior frontend developer at Rogers Communications Inc. in Toronto, in an Agile environment using AngularJS and SASS.

He is convinced that TypeScript is the future of JavaScript, bringing the structure and discipline of strongly typed object oriented language to facilitate efficient, intentional coding for the development of large scale applications for the Web.

You can contact Andrew at http://adventmedia.net/.

Brandon Mills was first introduced to programming more than a decade ago, kicking off a career which has taken him to companies as small as two-person start-ups and as large as Microsoft, where he helped build Visual Studio 2013, Azure Tools, and the developer tools in the new Edge browser that shipped with Windows 10. He is a member of the core development team for ESLint, a customizable, open source linter for JavaScript and JSX. Node.js is his platform of choice, on top of which he authors applications and services in JavaScript or TypeScript. You can follow him on GitHub at https://github.com/btmills.

Thanks to Scott for his impetus and inspiration, Linda for her unconditional love, Abby for his patience, and Ashlynn for her support.

Ivo Gabe de Wolff is a freelance developer under the name of ivogabe , founded in 2012, and he is studying mathematics and computing sciences at Utrecht University. When he was 11, he started programming games with Game Maker. After learning various languages, such as C# and JavaScript, he now uses TypeScript for almost all his projects. In the last few years, he has used TypeScript in lots of different environments, including for mobile apps. Now, he mainly specializes in Node.js programming.