Steve Fenton

This is a problem that is not unique to TypeScript, although it is perhaps easier to solve in TypeScript than in many other languages. It all comes down to one of the fundamental and fractal units of architecture… depend only on what you need. There are two things that make this a hard principle to […]

The practice of using classes as interfaces in TypeScript is most commonly promoted in the Angular style guide, which says (emphasis mine): Consider using a class instead of an interface. The recommendation is to think about using a concrete class as an interface using the implements keyword. I am hoping to convince you to do […]

If you have an object in your code, and that object has some kind of measurement, you might well have done this: class Desk { constructor( public width: number, public depth: number, public height: number ) {} } But this will almost certainly lead to some issues… for example, you store your values as centimeters […]

When I was invited to write Pro TypeScript for Apress, the pitch I prepared with my ace Editor, Gwenan, included a unique selling point. That USP was to go beyond the normal syntactical lessons of how to write various expressions using the programming language and talk in reasonable detail about how to apply some design […]