3 Primer, part 1

This chapter covers

  • Understanding the basic structure of HTML and the role of CSS
  • Understanding the relationship between JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Using TypeScript to make the JavaScript type system predictable
  • Using the basic JavaScript/TypeScript types and operators

Developers come to the world of web app development via many paths and are not always grounded in the basic technologies that web apps rely on. In this chapter, I provide a brief overview of HTML, introduce the basics of JavaScript and TypeScript, and give you the foundation you need to understand the examples in the rest of the book, continuing with more advanced features in chapter 4. If you are already familiar with HTML and TypeScript, you can jump right ...

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