Building applications with Node & TypeScript

In this talk, Marco Talento gives an introduction to TypeScript and how to combine it with NodeJs to create awesome applications

1. Building applications with Node & TypeScript @Talento90 marcotalento90@gmail.com Marco Talento
2. About me • R&D Engineer at NOS Inovação (BoldInt Consultant) • Sharednode Founder • Open Source Contributor Github: https://github.com/Talento90 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Talento90 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcotalento 2
3. Agenda • Introduction • TS definitions • Tools & IDE’s • Project Structure • Demo • Conclusion 3
4. What is TypeScript? • TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. • Includes all features of ES6 and much more: types, interfaces, generics, etc... 4
5. Who is using TypeScript? 5
6. Why TypeScript? • Easy to learn • Types prevents bugs • Makes code more readable • Open Source • Created & maintained by Microsoft 6
7. Types Prevent Bugs 7
8. How to “TypeScript”? 1. Install TypeScript: npm install -g typescript 2. Create file app.ts 3. Compile using the command line: tsc app.ts 4. Run the result: node app.js 8
9. Compilation result 9
10. Compiler options Use tsconfig.json to specify the compiler options. tsconfig.json - http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/tsconfig.json.html 10
11. TypeScript Definitions 11
12. What is a TS definition? • Definitions give intellisense and module typification. • TypeScript definitions are suffixed by “.d.ts” • Maintainable by community • To reference the modules it’s necessary to include the following line on the top of each TS file: /// <reference path="../../../typings.d.ts" /> 12
13. Example 13
14. MongoDb Definition 14
15. TypeScript Definition Manager Typings is a tool to manage and install TypeScript definitions. It uses typings.json to handle dependencies. Github: https://github.com/typings/typings How to use it: • Install typings: npm install typings --global • Search for typings: typings search hapi • Install Typings: typings install hapi --ambient --save 15
16. typings.json 16
17. Definition doesn’t exist? 17
18. No problem! We have 3 different solutions! 18
19. First Solution (Don’t Care) 19 Ignore the TS errors, the generated code will work!
20. Second Solution (Lazy) 20 Create a definition to shut up the compiler.
21. Third Solution (Perfect) 21 Create and contribute to the community http://definitelytyped.org/guides/contributing.html
22. Tools & IDE’s TSLint - A Linter for the TypeScript language. Typedoc - A documentation generator for TypeScript projects. IDE Support: • VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) • Sublime (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin) • Atom (https://atom.io/packages/atom-typescript) • Vim (https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Editor- Support#vim) 22
23. Project Structure 23
24. Project Structure src - TS source files. test - all application tests must be inside this folder. build - contains all the generated JS files respecting the same structure. 24
25. Project Structure • gulpfile.js - define your tasks (compile, test, etc…) • tsconfig.json - TypeScript compiler options. • tslint.json - TypeScript linter rules • typings.json - Typings Definition Manager • typings.d.ts - Main file that aggregates all definitions. 25
26. DEMO (Putting Everything Together) 26 Code: https://github.com/Talento90/typescript-node
27. Conclusion & Thoughts 27 • Easier to write scalable & reliable code • Improve developers productivity • Can be used everywhere • Better documentation • The community is growing faster
28. References 28 • http://www.typescriptlang.org/ • http://johnpapa.net/es5-es2015-typescript/ • https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/getting-started.html • https://medium.com/ants-blog/beat-the-typescript-monster-d3653458a1fe • http://staltz.com/all-js-libraries-should-be-authored-in-typescript.html
29. Thanks! 29
30. Q&A 30