mulholo/typescript-workshop

A practical guide to getting up and running with TypeScript in an hour

TypeScript Workshop

A 2 part practical guide to getting up and running with TypeScript in 1 hour

Setup

• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/muholio/typescript-workshop
• brew install yarn
• yarn install inside this repo
• Install VSCode if you want out of the box TS config
• Open the root of folder in VSCode. Done!
• Optional: Install Prettier plugin
• Optional: Install eslint plugin

Overview/Timetables

Talk One

• The world of TypeScript
  • What is TypeScript and how does it compare to JavaScript?
  • A map of TypeScript tooling: Webpack, Babel vs TSC, eslint, Next.js
  • Making friends with JavaScript: Definitely Typed and @types packages
• Enough TypeScript to write any program
  • Basic types: string, number, boolean, array
  • Type inferance
  • Function types
  • Object types
    • Structural vs nominal typing
  • type and interface
  • any and unkown
  • Generics
  • Exercises

Talk Two

• Quick refresh of talk one: ecosystem and syntax
• Async programming
• Error handling
• Modules
• Exercises & questions!!!