In this article I will show you how to write safer
TypeScript code by leveraging a feature called strictNullChecks. It's quite easy to miss because it's turned off by default, but can help a lot to produce more robust code. I'll also briefly introduce another lesser-known feature of the language called type guards.Some Java full-stack developers (like me) always wanted to have statically typed
JavaScript. I remember when starting a new project with
GWT and being quite amazed by the possibility of using Java on both sides.Nowadays, many new languages are trying to be a replacement of JavaScript. TypeScript is one of them. I got my first experience with TypeScript when trying early betas of
Angular 2. I quite liked a concept of adding static types to JavaScript. However, I also see developers trying to keep the freedom of JavaScript. Fortunately, TypeScript gives developers flexibility to decide what way they want to go and how they want to mix static vs dynamic types.To experiment with these tradeoffs, I decided to use TypeScript for a new
React/
Redux project. The application is a web SPA which is the front end for a typical SAAS. Users can register/login, adding credit cards, managing api keys, see billing information, etc. All the examples in this article will be from that project and have React+Redux context.
06 January, 2017
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Shine's TEL group was established in 2011 with the aim of publicising the great technical work that Shine does, and to raise the company’s profile as a technical thought-leader through blogs, local meet up talks, and conference presentations. Each month, the TEL group gather up all the awesome things that Shine folk have been getting up to in and around the community. Here’s the latest roundup from what's been happening.
Last week I had the privilege of attending the YOW! Connected conference in Melbourne, Australia. YOW! Connected offers a look at all the interesting things that are happening in the mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) space, from the perspective of both software developers and UX designers.On the mobile front it included a variety of talks relating to both the iOS and Android platforms and yes, even a little bit of Windows.In general all the talks that I went to were pretty good, but here I will write about a few that particularly interested me.
WHAT A WEEKEND! I’m still recovering from the 24 hours of coding and the unhealthy amount of coffee and snacks I’ve ingested during this hackathon.Two weeks ago, Melbourne was host to the first Battlehack of 2015. “What’s a Battlehack?” I hear you ask. Well Battlehacks are competitions sponsored by Braintree (a Paypal company) where teams of developers face off over 24 hours to create the most creative hack that benefits the local or global community. The venue, which was the Plaza Ballroom on Collins St was well worth a mention. The vast ballroom was decked out with food stations, sleep and massage stations, and most importantly, our hacking stations, or tables of 4 for the long night ahead.