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TypeScript for Beginners

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Introduction to TypeScript

Why Use TypeScript?Using TypeScript What is TypeScript?Understanding the benefits of TypeScript with React

Variables

Declaring a Variable Declaring Types in Untyped Code Hoisting Variables TypeScript Scope is JavaScript Scope Switch Scope The Multiple Methods of Declaring a String What is a Number in TypeScript?Booleans, Functions, and Objects Avoiding `any` at Any Time Possible Understanding and using the void type Mutable and Immutable Arrays Undefined Versus Null The Primitive Type never Unknown: A Better any Literal Type to Narrow Primitive Type Symbol and Unique Symbol Casting to Change Type Quiz

Enum

Enum With and Without Values Accessing Enum Values Merging and Adding Functionality to Enum

Mapped Type

Definition and Usages Immutable Data with Readonly Partial Nullable Pick Omit Record Extract Exclude ReturnType Custom Mapped Type

Advanced Variables

Intersecting with Types, Interfaces, and Generics Literal Type, Narrowing, and Const Union with Types and Tagged Union Discriminated Unions in Practice State Machines Discriminated Unions vs Subtyping Const Assertion for Literal Values Tuple For Type and Length Arrays keyof to Validate a Member's Name Conditional Types Introduction Built-in Conditional Types TypeScript Inference Conditional Types Example - React Component Props Type Guards Custom Type Guards Nominal Types Set and Dictionary

Creating Types

Creating a strongly-typed array

Creating a strongly-typed tuple

Creating type aliases

Creating interfaces

Creating union types

Creating intersection types

Understanding type compatibility

Generic Type

Generic Using some standard generic types Generic Functions Generic Functions Example - Typing `reduce`Creating generic interfaces Creating generic type aliases Generic and Classes Quiz Generic with Construction Functions Generic Interfaces - OOP Perspective Generic Interfaces - FP Perspective Generic Constraint Type Argument Constraints Type Constructors Type Argument Propagation Generic Outside Class Generic Comparison Generic Inference Generic Default Generic and keyof

Strict Types

Introduction No Implicit `any`Fixing `noImplicitAny` Errors The `unknown` Type Strict Null Checks Optionality Strict Property Initialization Non-Null Assertion Operator Exercise in Strictness

Functions

Named and Anonymous Functions Function and Inference Variables Generic Return Type, Optional Parameter and Default Value Functions in Classes Function Relationship with "this"Overload Functions to Enrich your Definition Types of Function Headers

Objects

Introduction to TypeScript's Many Objects The Curly Braces Object New Object Lowercase vs UpperCase Object Creating a strongly-typed object

Iterators

Iterating an Object's Keys with For-In Iterating an Object with Standard For/While Iterating and the Asynchronous Loop

Manipulating Objects and Arrays

Typing an Array Array with a Skipped Value Destructuring an Array Destructuring an Object The Spread Operator and Arrays The Spread Operator and Objects The Bang Operator

Exception, Debugging & Practical Applications

Creating an Exception Catching Synchronous Exceptions Catching Asynchronous Exceptions Assertion Functions Debugging Errors: Type Assignability Debugging Errors: Narrowing Types Debugging Errors: Unintuitive Error Message React and TypeScript: `useState` Hook React and TypeScript: `useReducer` Hook RxJS and TypeScript: `pipe`

Alias

Aliases with the Structural Behavior of TypeScript Aliases with Type Aliases with Generic Types and Recursivity The Differences between Type Aliases and Interfaces Branded Alias

Type Checking

Type Checking and Interface with a Discriminator Type Checking with Intersections Type Checking an Interface with Custom User-Defined Type Guard Optional Chaining and Optional Element Access Nullish Coalescing Assertion Functions

Index Signature

Definitions and Usages String or Number Indexes Members of the Same Type Keys with Constants and Symbols

Sharing Code

Namespace Module Default Module Lazy Loading Module

Conclusion

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Creating type aliases

Creating type aliases

In this lesson, we'll learn what a type alias is and when they are useful.

Understanding the need for type aliases #

In the last lesson, we created an object type to hold a name and a score:

const tomScore: { name:

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