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Play by Play: Angular with Typescript with John Papa and Christopher Martin

by John Papa and Christopher Martin

Learn Angular concepts in Typescript while seeing how experts problem-solve. In this course, developer Chris Martin and John Papa convert an Angular application from ECMAScript 5 to TypeScript, teaching you important concepts and tooling as they go.

What you'll learn

If you want to learn how to think and solve problems like an Angular expert, this course is for you. Play by Play is a series where we sit down with an expert to work on a solution in real time, unscripted and unrehearsed. This course, Play by Play: Angular with Typescript with John Papa and Christopher Martin, shows master Node and JavaScript developer Chris Martin sitting down with John Papa as they walk through converting an Angular application written in ECMAScript 5 to TypeScript. Chris will set up TypeScript tooling and learn as he explores the benefits of migrating from JavaScript to TypeScript, including Static Type-checking, better tooling, and the ability to detect and fix issues early. Through this course, you'll see the various ways of working with Angular concepts in TypeScript, including modules, services, controllers, and directives, as well as helpful tools TypeScript provides for writing better code and detecting errors. You'll learn the pros and cons of using TypeScript functions and classes for writing your Angular code. Please join us on this journey through building an Angular 1 Web application with TypeScript. By the time you're done, you'll not only understand a lot more about Angular with Typescript, but you'll also know how to problem-solve like a pro.

About the authors

John Papa is a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft and an alumni of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft Regional Director, and MVP programs. He's passionate about Web and mobile technologies, and often enjoys speaking around the world at keynotes and sessions for conferences, including NgConf, Build, Ignite, VSLive, and AngleBrackets. John is a co-host of the popular Adventures in Angular podcast, author of the Angular Style Guide, several books, and many popular Pluralsight courses. ... more

Christopher Martin is a Solutions Architect with 20+ years experience in Software Development and Unix Systems Administration. He specializes in full-stack web application development using technologies that include JavaScript/Node.js, Angular, PHP, Java, Clojure, RDBMS, and NoSQL services. Over the past 5 years, he has worked on enterprise solutions that focus on sustainability, productivity, and performance. He is currently focused on leveraging Cloud services and Docker to improve flexibility... more

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