Chapter 11. Developing Angular apps with TypeScript

This chapter covers

  • A quick intro to the Angular framework
  • How to generate, build, and serve a web app written in Angular and TypeScript
  • How Angular implements dependency injection

In October of 2014, a team of Google developers was considering creating a new language, AtScript, which would extend TypeScript and be used for developing the all new Angular 2 framework. In particular, AtScript would support decorators, which were not in TypeScript back then.

Then one of the Googlers suggested meeting with the TypeScript team from Microsoft to see if they would be willing to add decorators to TypeScript itself. The Microsoft folks agreed, and the Angular 2 framework was written in TypeScript, ...

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