In celebration of TypeScript 4.3, I take a look TypeScript’s Object Oriented features and look at the new features this release brings.
TypeScript provides good support for both object-oriented programming and function-oriented programming (I’m not saying functional programming as I don’t want the purists to hunt me down).
Be on your guard
In celebration of the release of TypeScript 4.4, I explore Type Unions in TypeScript and how the language uses Type Guards and Control Flow Analysis to automatically refine a variable’s type.
I’ll be covering:
- What are Type Unions
- Type Guards and Control Flow Analysis
- 4.4’s CFA for Aliased Conditions and…
In this article I’ll explain how Redux Toolkit simplifies building Redux based apps and combines beautifully with React and TypeScript for an all-round great stack.
NOTE: This article was originally written here in October 2020 but was updated for the 2020 release of The State of JavaScript.
Why am I talking about this?
In celebration of TypeScript 4.2’s recent release and the language’s continued evolution, let’s take a look at tuple types and some advanced type manipulations we can do with them.
Fundamentals
A Tuple (rhymes with ‘couple’, not ‘pupil’) is a simple container of data. A tuple object has a fixed size, and…
In this tutorial we continue the step by step guide for creating a weather app using React and TypeScript.
Welcome back to this tutorial on using React and TypeScript to build client-side web apps. In Part 1 we covered:
- Boot-strapping an app with
create-react-app - Using React with TypeScript
- React Hooks
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In this tutorial I’ll provide a complete introduction to using React and TypeScript to build a client-side web app. Together we’ll create a simple Weather App that allows you to search for locations and displays its current weather and 24 hour forecast.
Along the way, you’ll learn:
A look at how both statically and dynamically typed languages have pros and cons and how we should identify the benefits and choose languages that provide the best of both worlds.
I coach developers in both statically and dynamically typed languages. Several of the courses I teach can be delivered…
In this article I’ll take a look at some new features in TypeScript 4.1 — namely Template Literal Types, Key Remapping and Recursive Conditional Types. At the end I’ll show some crazy examples of using these features to do a bit of meta-programming.
