Skip to Content
Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
book

Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

Interfaces

Interfaces are probably the feature that you will miss the most while developing large-scale web applications with JavaScript if you have a background in object-oriented statically-typed programming languages such as Java or C#.

Traditionally, in OOP, we say that a class can extend only one class and implement one or more interfaces. An interface can implement one or more interfaces and cannot extend another class or interface. Wikipedia's definition of interfaces in OOP is as follows:

"In object-oriented languages, the term interface is often used to define an abstract type that contains no data or code, but defines behaviors as method signatures."

In TypeScript, interfaces don't strictly follow this definition. The two main differences ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

Mastering TypeScript - Fourth Edition

Nathan Rozentals
Learning TypeScript

Learning TypeScript

Josh Goldberg
TypeScript for Beginners

TypeScript for Beginners

Bharath Thippireddy

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788391474Supplemental Content