Tutorial - Learning TypeScript

               

Content

• Tutorial - Learning TypeScript
  • Content
  • Overview
  • Requirements
  • Setup
  • Tutorials & Examples
  • Documentation, Guides, and Examples
    • General
      • ECMAScript
      • Module Formats
      • Package Managers
    • Languages and Runtime
      • Comparisons
      • NodeJs
      • JavaScript
      • TypeScript

Overview

The purpose of this repository is for me to start learning TypeScript and JavaScript.

Requirements

Tool	Description
NodeJS	Node & NPM Installation

Setup

1. Install TypeScript compiler within the project (repository directory) npm install typescript --save-dev
2. Initialise compiler npx tsc --init
3. Configure the tsconfig.json file. This will be generated by default via the init command shown above.
4. Build i.e. convert to JavaScript npx tsc
5. Run JavaScript code with node build/{something}.js}

For more information on the tsconfig file, please see:

• TypeScript Docs - What is a tsconfig.json
• TypeScript Docs - TSConfig References
• GitHub - TSConfig Bases
• Mozilla - JavaScript Docs

Tutorials & Examples

• 0 - Hello World
• 1 - Simple Types
• 2 - Special Types
• 3 - Arrays
• 4 - Loops
• 5 - JSON

Documentation, Guides, and Examples

General

ECMAScript

• Mozilla Docs - ECMAScript

Module Formats

• CommonJs Vs ES Modules
• Modules in JavaScript – CommonJS and ESmodules Explained

Package Managers

TBC

Languages and Runtime

• NodeJS is a server side runtime
• JavaScript is a scripting or programming language
• TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript

Comparisons

• TypeScript vs Node.js: Overview, Differences and Performance

NodeJs

• NodeJS Docs

JavaScript

• W3 Schools - JavaScript Tutorial
• roadmap.sh - JavaScript
• Mozilla - JavaScript Fundamentals

TypeScript

• TypeScript Docs
• TypeScript - JSDocs Reference
• TSDoc
• W3 Schools - TypeScript Tutorial
• roadmap.sh - TypeScript
• freeCodeCamp - Learn TypeScript - The Ultimate Beginners Guide
• Medium - Batuhan Çam - Getting Started with TypeScript: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners