TypeScript provides some built-in utility types that help facilitate transformations of types from one form to another. These utilities are available globally. They can be quite handy in various situations. TypeScript generics Before understanding the TypeScript utility types, it is important to understand type aliases and generics. You can create...
Once we start exploring TypeScript, we start using interfaces and types without really understanding the differences between them. I am guilty of doing that as well. It is simple to get started with them and keep using them. But, at some point, it becomes important to know the difference between...
Gatsby has become fairly popular in the last couple of years and it has starting becoming the go to static site generator for a lot of projects. The smooth developer experience and the warm community has enriched the adoption even more. TypeScript has had a similar growth curve and has...
As you might know, I have been diving into setting up a boilerplate for a TypeScript project with React. And what good is a project without a unit testing framework? So I will go through the process of setting up Jest with TypeScript and Babel in this post. If you...
The Typescript team recently announced its road map. Interestingly, they have decided to not focus on TSLint any more and focus their efforts on ESLint for Typescript linting instead. This is a great thing for the community overall since ESLint becomes the defacto linting tool going forward. In this post,...
After seeing a lot of projects making the move to Typescript, I recently started to give it a shot as well. For people who are not aware of typescript, it is a wrapper over javascript which has built-in support for types. We get static checking for our code as well...
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