Questions tagged [typescript]
A JavaScript like programming language created by Microsoft. Open source, and compiles to JavaScript.
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“State” pattern and encapsulation
Suppose we have the following classes:
As you see, it's an implementation of the State Pattern.
Basically, the Order class proxies the pay() and cancel() method calls to it's concrete OrderState ...
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Are there any standards for flowchart data structures?
I'm often tasked with relatively complex flows that my employers will want to experiment with in regards to the amount of steps and their order. I'm a contractor and when my work is handed over to ...
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Angular2+ - is service2 still costing resources if I use it in service1's constructor but never really use it?
I have a notification service with a logger service in the constrctor. I want to use the logging service to send POST request to backend with some data ONLY when errors occured.
Inside this logger ...
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What's the best way to handle a large multi-file class in Javascript?
I have a very large class of 59 methods and about 3000 lines of code. I know that's far larger than most people would want, but the class represents a virtual machine, and most of the methods are run ...
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separating git repositories for frontend / back end
So I currently have this situation. I'm developing with Vue, and I've got my backend files in the same repository as my frontend (Vue) files. Now, I want to move to typescript and use webpack with ...
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Why don't variables in TypeScript implicitly infer literal typing?
Given a literal type, for instance 1 | 2, assigning a value to a variable that correctly corresponds to the literal type will fail.
interface SomeInterface {
foo: (1 | 2);
}
class SomeClass ...
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Is there a pattern to describe a class that symbolises an instance of an instance of another class?
I am currently working on a project that generates videos from templates (a template being a collection of JSON files and assets).
It seems natural to have a Template class that contains all the info ...
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What's the difference between “foo.spec.ts” and “foo.test.ts"?
When I use Angular CLI to generate a component, the test linked uses the logic foo.spec.ts.
I am reading a tutorial where the test linked uses the logic foo.test.ts.
What's the difference between “...
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Making all angular services extend a single base service
In Typescript/Angular 6 (2+), is it considered a good practice to have a base abstract http service from which derives all the application services? for example:
//import the angular Http ...etc
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Generic method with different arguments
In the following scenario:
A factory returns an object of a logic class:
ILogicClass object = factory.GetByRequirements(reqs);
I then want to invoke a method and get some results which are in the ...
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UI Architecture
I'm confused in architecture solution for boolean expression tree.
Business logic has algo to parse config and make a tree from such expressions.
(a && b || c) && d || (e && f)...
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How to use TypeScript to develop web applications
I've been reading a lot about Type Script lately, and it seems really interesting, but I'm having some trouble understanding how to apply this to my current workflow, so let's start with that.
I ...
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Is it a good practice to log client side errors to a file
I basically want to know if it is considered a good practice to persist the errors that happen on the client side of a web application (typescript/angular for example) by logging them to files?
Or if ...
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Handling Pausable Streams with RxJS
Reading a Node Stream I want to be able to receive a stream of text, and trigger the continuation of my stream.
The following code solves my purposes but I recently read that we are using Subject too ...
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TypeScript - Can “Structural typing” and “OOP paradigm” co-exist?
From Type Compatibility - Introduction:
Structural typing is a way of relating types based solely on their
members. This is in contrast with nominal typing. Consider the
following code:
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Ideas to deal with dependencies in a component-based web architecture
I'm spending some time lately reading and thinking about alternative ways to build web applications. One of the approaches I'm experimenting with is heavily based on OO, using TypeScript. The general ...
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Unit testing rabbitmq messaging library?
I'm having trouble figuring how I would test a library that intended to be used for communicating with another web service. For example, I have a Messenger class that initializes a connection and ...
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Designing a multi-tenant single page application for the web
I'm looking at designing a multi-tenant application (well I believe it is multi-tenant). We have a single page application, an API and common database.
We have groups of users, each with their own ...
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Using an array as a member variable in a class
I have a style question for designing a class to represent a real model.
Let's say I have Guide that has PointsOfInterest as a member.
Would I want to do something like:
class Guide {
public ...
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Angular2: Service architecture + error handling
I need support for Angular2 service architectures. I am quite familiar with Angular2 but I don't see the best way to implement services, error handling and their connection with the components. I'm ...
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How does the typescript transpile function work
Assume the following:
/// file.ts
var x = "hello";
x = 1;
console.log(x);
/// file.ts
function transpile(fileName) {
...
}
What steps would typescript take to transpile the file?
How and when ...
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Understanding Typescript's views on inheritance
I have been struggling to understand the reasons why typescript developers choose the way they implemented inheritance.
What I would expect from any language supporting inheritance is these order of ...
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Capturing keyboard events for a limited time
I'm trying to code a kind of simple video game where there are two kind of players:
Human Players: They enter an keyboard input
CPU Players: A random input is calculated
For Human Players there is a ...
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SystemJS Transpiler - where would it be used
I'm creating a project which uses SystemJS/JSPM.
I'm also using TypeScript.
Now TypeScript has the option of compiling JS using SystemJS Modules - which I'm doing and all is good. I've created TS ...
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In a JavaScript method signature what is meant by a return type of `typeof blahBlahBlah`?
I've seen an API list methods with both of the following signatures:
methodA(...) : ReturnType
methodB(...) : typeof ReturnType
I understand the first but not the second.
My question comes ...
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Should a method always be static if it can be?
I am using Typescript in Webstorm with Angular 2 and I am frequently getting warnings that a given method can be static. Yes, these specific methods do not depend on the state of the object they are a ...
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How is the TypeScript compiler implemented in TypeScript? [duplicate]
I was reading on the TypeScript site and saw that the TypeScript compiler is itself written in TypeScript. "The TypeScript compiler is implemented in TypeScript and can be used in any JavaScript host."...
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IoC Framework vs. DI Layer
Say we have a class structure like the following:
// implementation.ts
export class A implements IA {
constructor(private b: IB) {}
}
export class B implements IB {
constructor(private c: IC) ...
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Why are Promises not “awaited” by default?
In the latest version of languages like TypeScript or ECMAScript you can use async/await constructs to write code that combines the clean structure of synchronous programming with the performance ...
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Strategy To Upgrade Frontend Javascript Code - Typescript or New Framework?
Here is my scenario. I would like advice on which path to follow, along with good reasons as to why. It would even be better if you could give an example based on experience of a similar decision but ...
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optional data in the constructor, bad practice?
Currently I have a model class that represents a user.
This class has a constructor that takes an object with all user properties, used for example, when creating the user. In this case I instantiate ...
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Where should “conversion” functions be placed?
I have a type Bound as a sort of "alias" for an array of three numbers (working in TypeScript with: type Bound = [number, number, number]). I did this basically to help readability by specifying in ...
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Considerations when using Gulp to compile typescript vs using Visual Studio [closed]
We are a Microsoft shop, developing with Visual Studio. We are building a single page app, and we have elected to use Gulp to handle a lot of the script build tasks (javascript minification, css ...
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What does it mean to inject data (vs behaviour) in a class constructor, and why is that considered bad practice?
I am reading the book "Learning TypeScript" by Remo Jansen. In one section the author describes how to create a very simple proof-of-concept MVC framework including how to create the Model class and ...
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I feel like the more I improve the structure of my program I am writing a DSL [closed]
My project started out as spaghetti code. The more DRY and extensible I make my code, the more it looks like configuration files and code than runs them.
Is that a good thing or does that mean I am ...
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TypeScript/ES2015: Prefer `const` instead of `let` reduces readability?
ES2015 introduced the let and const keywords, which essentially have the same semantics apart from reassignment. (const can be seen as a final variable in languages like Java.)
I see the point of ...
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Finding types in TypeScript
I'm using a lot of implicit any in TypeScript. I don't quite understand how to decipher a TSD file in order to get the correct type when building off a library like express or angular. Is there a way ...
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How far should I validate user input in my own created API?
I got something here that bogs my mind a bit.
Let's say I write me this API (in TS), check out some of these properties:
export class MyAPI{
propertyThatShouldContainSuffix:Array<...
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Idiomatic way to write JavaScript class that maintains state and tells you when that state has changed
I am an experienced C++ developer but new to JavaScript. I want to write an ES6 JavaScript class that maintains state.
How do I tell when state has changed?
I can think of two ways to do this. One ...
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Why aren't there traditional namespaces in TypeScript? How do I group classes without them?
"Traditional" namespaces in the sense that Java, C#, and PHP use it. Spaces to organize related classes and sub-namespaces that span across multiple files.
How do I rewire my brain to think without ...
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How do webpack and gulp complement each other?
I've started with TypeScript 2.5 years ago with Visual Studio and ASP.Net MVC. VS Web Essentials would compile ts files on save and the WebOptimizer library would bundle them together at runtime in a ...
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Is it a bad practice to compile TypeScript NodeJS app to a single JS file?
I'm currently exploring TypeScript and I was wondering why not compile the whole app to a single JS file instead of compiling every .ts file to it's corresponding .js.
Example for such an app is ...
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Why doesn't v8 compile typescript instead of javascript? [closed]
Since Typescript is just a superset of javascript (every javascript program is also a typescript program), I've got this idea - why doesn't v8 support typescript? or anything statically typed ...
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Design pattern for multiple companies in AngularJS
We are on the verge of launching v3 of our in-house product. v2 was written completely in AngularJS and V3 will be the same, but written completely in Typescript.
We have a few customers that have ...
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Unit Testing a stateful framework such as Phaser?
TL;DR I need help in identifying techniques to simplify automated unit testing when working within a stateful framework.
Background:
I'm currently writing a game in TypeScript and the Phaser ...
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Is there a reasonable way for a TypeScript class to derive from a Dojo/Dijit class?
DefinitelyTyped has a Dojo solution which uses named modules and may work with legacy Dojo and explicit typing, but these declarations do not facilitate TypeScript import since there are no anonymous ...
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How does authentication work with ASP.NET (using Live ID and\or Windows Authentication)
I'm primarily a .NET desktop app programmer. Coming into the web world has been difficult. I'm trying to convert one of my Silverlight apps into HTML. But I'm having a hard time figuring out the ...
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TypeScript or JavaScript for noob web developer [closed]
Following the recent release by Microsoft of TypeScript I was wondering if this is something that should be considered for a experienced WinForm and XAML developer looking to get into more web ...
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Differences between TypeScript and Dart [closed]
Microsoft recently unveiled Typescript, a new JavaScript-like programming language.
Some time ago, I heard about Dart, a new programming language created by Google to solve problems related to ...
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What is the motivation behind TypeScript?
We had JavaScript, then we had Flash, then we had Silverlight and then HTML5 ownd them all.
So what is the motivation behind TypeScript? What problems are going to be tackled and what improvements ...
