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Introduction to TypeScript
As we learned in the previous chapter, where we built our very first Angular application, the code of an Angular project is written in TypeScript. Writing in TypeScript and leveraging its static typing gives us a remarkable advantage over other scripting languages. This chapter is not a thorough overview of the TypeScript language. Instead, we’ll focus on the core elements and study them in detail on our journey through Angular. The good news is that TypeScript is not all that complex, and we will manage to cover most of its relevant parts.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- The history of TypeScript
- Types
- Functions, lambdas, and execution flow
- Common TypeScript features
- Decorators ...
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