Pro TypeScript: Application-Scale JavaScript Development

It’s a helpful book. Sometimes you wish some person new to the concepts had forced the the author to fill in some gaps. Chapter 2: Code Organization is good, but “common practice” for code organization is never addressed nor examples given. Now I know that modules are preferred to namespaces, but I’ll need to go searching through collections of open source to try to decide better how to organize my package or application. From that chapter I also know how to create my own NPM package, but not how to install it from a private repository nor exactly how to deal with local repositories. That’s what I really want to know still!The index leaves a lot to be desired. I’m adding a lot of things to it myself. Interfaces are treated well on p. 44, but you won’t find anything in the index for that. Nor will you find that the import statement is indexed. Key info starts on p. 69.Regarding the Kindle version: your best bet may be to use the instructions at the very back of the book to buy the electronic version for $5.00 once you have the hard copy, download as a PDF, upload it from your iOS device (can’t test Android) and choose to convert it on the way in to Kindle format. The table of content is mangled, but the rest of the book looks pretty good.

I work on a large web-based application that makes extensive use of JavaScript. Our JS codebase is getting unwieldy and hard to maintain so we are taking the plunge and starting to migrate it to TypeScript.This book provides an excellent grounding in TypeScript for people familiar with JavaScript. It illustrates the problems TypeScript is meant to solve (and those it isn't). It also provides clear examples of TypeScript conventions and capabilities. It works well both as a learning tool and a reference -- I've been turning to it regularly during my porting project.For my own needs, the book does have a couple of areas that I feel deserve more detail: setting up a TypeScript environment in an IDE (such as IntelliJ); and how to best help TypeScript coexist with a an existing JavaScript codebase that is being migrated. I've needed to turn to Stack Overflow etc. for information in these areas.Overall, though, I highly recommend this book if you want to explore TypeScript or need a TypeScript reference.

This is a superb book. Adjectives that come to mind: clear, thorough, well--written, concise, complete, excellent.I have bought a number of TypeScript books, and this one is the best by very, very far. It may be the best programming language book that I've ever read.Cannot recommend this book strongly enough. Buy it right now if you want to learn TypeScript.

I didn't manage to go through the book or even read two pages from this book, as the format is all bold, all the same size. It's tough to read a book which doesn't utilize whitespaces bold and standard text or even code blocks.The content of the book seems fine (I bought it so already went through my quality check), didn't manage to come to any conclusions though if it's excellent content or just good one. I really want to read this book, but how can I read with so much mental constraint when I have to force my eyes to follow the text.Is this even went through editor checkup before publishing to kindle? At this point, "I want my money back" thoughts are occurring to me. Such bad formatting books should not be making into kindle store at all. Even though I want to read this book asap, and have no wish for anybody to take it down. I question the amazon quality process for allowing poor kindle publishing.I have to know more about this topic, so I guess I have to force myself to read this book in this way, so I'm not going to return it.

I really like this book. The examples are clear and written well. Highly recommend reading this book to get a soild understanding of TypeScript before moving into Angular development.

After 1st page everything in Kindle version is formatted in bold. This bug should be fixed ASAP.

Great book. Very well written and comprehensive.