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TypeScript in 50 Lessons
You might have heard about TypeScript, but you might not know why it's useful, and how to make it work for you. This book is supposed to fix just that: it provides JavaScript developers with a simple, structured and pragmatic guidance towards TypeScript, and explains how to make sense of it all, step-by-step.
In “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, Stefan Baumgartner breaks down the quirks of TypeScript into short, manageable lessons — for front-end developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.
In “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, Stefan Baumgartner breaks down the quirks of TypeScript into short, manageable lessons — for front-end developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.
369 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2020
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October 15, 2020While TypeScript seems incredibly fascinating, the code analysis aspect is really what I came looking for and got excited about. I’ll delve into deeply learning about types from a TypeScript perspective another time.
December 19, 2024
I rushed the last chapters because it became quite heavy for my needs. But it was very eye-opening on Typescript and how to work with types. I think I'll keep some of the examples for training !
October 27, 2020
Complete guide through TS. Highly recommend. Especialy chapters about Generics and Conditional types.
January 3, 2021
Clear explanations and well written! Can't recommend enough !
June 6, 2022
This book covers a lot. It assumes that you might not only be new to TypeScript but also to type-system in general. As a consequence, there's a lot of prose and handholding. Probably I'm not the targeted audience here but it feels like the book is mostly geared towards FE engineers who're usually not expected to know much outside of their framework of choice.
I do like the friendly tone of how it approaches the topics but the gist gets quickly lost in the prose. The text/example ratio is low enough to make me put it aside quickly. However, I think that the details do help the chapters that explain Generics and Conditional Types; those are great. Overall, if you have previous experience of working with types, I'd say look at the Handbook and then go through Effective TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam; both are fantastic resources to learn about writing type-safe dynamic code.
I do like the friendly tone of how it approaches the topics but the gist gets quickly lost in the prose. The text/example ratio is low enough to make me put it aside quickly. However, I think that the details do help the chapters that explain Generics and Conditional Types; those are great. Overall, if you have previous experience of working with types, I'd say look at the Handbook and then go through Effective TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam; both are fantastic resources to learn about writing type-safe dynamic code.
February 20, 2022
Wish I would have learned TypeScript from this book the first time around. I started reading it since I found that it had chapters that covered features of TypeScript I needed to quickly learn and apply in current projects.
Instead of focusing on just the lessons that covered what I needed, I decided to read it from cover to cover. Turned out that it was a brilliant decision. I learned something new from almost every chapter.
Instead of focusing on just the lessons that covered what I needed, I decided to read it from cover to cover. Turned out that it was a brilliant decision. I learned something new from almost every chapter.
May 22, 2022
This books contains a lot of great tips and tricks and explanations of Typescript concepts that I've previously had difficulties understanding. However, I think it would be even better if there were more visualizations of the different concepts. It can become a bit too much when the books is full of text and code and has no visual explanations. It would be easier to digest and understand the content if it had more visuals.
Overall great book about Typescript anyway!
Overall great book about Typescript anyway!
August 7, 2022
Lots of knowledge about TypeScript but with the more complex examples it was hard to follow, some kind of visualisation would definitely help. You have this wall of text and code so it's really tough to know what's going on. Apart from that it's a really concise guide to TS.
Ah, one more thing - in the later parts of the book I feel that the "type safety" was put over the readability of the code. So it could be good or bad, depends on your preferences.
Ah, one more thing - in the later parts of the book I feel that the "type safety" was put over the readability of the code. So it could be good or bad, depends on your preferences.
January 11, 2023
This book started strong, but by the end the code samples were so riddled with bugs that it was almost unusable. I have little patience for how-to books that force me to debug their work while trying to learn the topic they are teaching. It distracts me from learning and exponentially increases my frustration with the topic. I am glad this reading experience is over.
September 17, 2021
I've learnt some features of TypeScript that I didn't know about and overall structured my knowledge. But the ebook was not so straight forward as it looks and contained a lot of errors. I guess it would be better to remove the lessons and just explain type concepts with examples.
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