##What is this?## This was just a basic test to see how well TypeScript can be used for "application-scale" development. The end result of the project was a very basic blogging system with basic CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
I wasn't sure where to take this test project originally, but I was inspired a lot by hawt.io to make use of both Grunt and AngularJs. Which eventually led me to make a basic blog system.
I would definitely like to make use of these technologies in future projects and couldn't recommend them more!
- AngularJs - I hadn't planned to use this framework initially, but after I saw the the hawt.io webconsole I was very impressed by it and wanted to use AngularJs, and I'm glad I did. It provides a very nice double-binding system, and it has got some really awesome concepts. The Dependency Injection method is just utterly brilliant, I can't wait to play around with it more
- Grunt - A very nice task based build tool (Basically Maven/Ant for JavaScript). It provides a very nice task called 'watch' which listens for code changes automatically, which when combined with the TypeScript compile task, allows for very fast development speeds!
- TypeScript - A superset of Javascript which gives you the ability to optionally add type information to JavaScript, it also has a bunch of sugar and ES6 spec implementations which is very nice! You should try out the TypeScript playground and see how brilliant it is :)