Angular Design Patterns

TypeScript Best Practices

I've always hated JavaScript. I use it, sure, but only when necessary. I distinctly remember my first internship interview, back when I was a freshman at eXia.Cesi, a French computer engineering school. I only knew C and some Java, and I was asked to help on an intranet that mostly worked with homemade Ajax libraries. It was pure madness and kind of steered me away from the web aspect of computer engineering for a while. I find nothing likeable in the following:

var r = new XMLHttpRequest();  
r.open("POST", "webservice", true); 
r.onreadystatechange = function () { 
   if (r.readyState != 4 || r.status != 200) return;  
   console.log(r.responseText); 
}; 
r.send("a=1&b=2&c=3"); 
 

A native Ajax call. How ugly is that?

Of course, ...