When I first started working with TypeScript, one of the most basic yet essential things I needed to figure out was how to print or display output. Whether for debugging, logging, or user interaction, printing values is a fundamental skill every TypeScript developer needs. In this article, I’ll show you several different ways to print … Read more >>
While working on a TypeScript project, there are many situations where you’ll need to combine multiple strings to form a single message. For example, suppose you’re building a machine monitoring system. You might want to display something like: “Machine: Generator – Status: Operational” For this requirement, we can perform string concatenation. TypeScript offers multiple ways … Read more >>
Working with TypeScript has always been a joy for me, especially when it comes to manipulating types. Type casting (also called type assertion) is one of those powerful features that I use almost daily in my TypeScript projects. It allows me to tell the compiler that I know better about the type of a variable … Read more >>
While working on TypeScript, you are building a calculator app that can add numbers. Sometimes, you need to add two numbers, and sometimes you need to add three numbers. You want to use the same function name, add, to handle both cases, so your code stays clean and easy to understand. To do this, you … Read more >>
Recently, I was working on a project that required generating unique identifiers for user records in my TypeScript application. The issue is… TypeScript doesn’t have a built-in UUID generator. So we need a reliable solution to implement this functionality. In this article, I’ll cover several simple ways you can generate and work with UUIDs in … Read more >>
While developing a TypeScript-based web application, you created a feature that fetches user data from an API. Sometimes, the API is down or returns an error. To handle such cases without crashing the app, you used a try-catch block inside an async function. This way, if the API call fails, you can display an error … Read more >>
Recently, I was introducing a colleague to TypeScript, and the first thing we did was create a simple “Hello World” program. It’s always best to start with the basics when learning a new programming language. In this article, I will explain different ways to create and run a “Hello World” program in TypeScript, from setting … Read more >>
Recently, I was working on a TypeScript project for a financial services company where we needed to simplify our codebase. One feature I found incredibly useful was the ternary operator, which helped us reduce complex if-else statements into clean, single-line expressions. In this article, I’ll show you how to effectively use the ternary operator in … Read more >>
When I first started working with TypeScript classes, I was searching for solutions to multiple ways of constructing an object in TypeScript, similar to those in Java. After searching, I discovered that TypeScript doesn’t support traditional constructor overloading. However, with an alternative approach that utilizes multiple constructor signatures and a single implementation, we can achieve … Read more >>
Recently, I was working on a TypeScript project where I needed to process user transactions in the exact order they were received. The issue was that there’s no built-in Queue data structure in TypeScript. So we need a proper implementation to handle this common scenario. In this article, I’ll explain various ways to implement queues … Read more >>