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A Practical Guide to TypeScript - How to Build a Pokedex app using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript

Ibrahima Ndaw on May 21, 2020

TypeScript is a superset that needs to compile to plain JavaScript. It offers more control over your code since it uses type annotations, interface...
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Oziel Perez •

What a time to be alive when Pokemon is a useful sample data set for building web apps and components. Considering there's about 921 pokemon (including regional variations), this would be a good data set for teaching data structures and how to sort/manage large numbers of records efficiently, not to mention asset compression for games.

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Igor Conde •

Awesome! Thanks

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Will G •

Nice TS introduction. Thanks!

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Habdul Hazeez •

This seems like a really nice way for me to learn TypeScript. Interesting, thanks for sharing!.

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Tomasz Puch •

Good stuff. I've also made my own version some time ago. It's a great subject for a pet project.

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Jaswanth Sai •

Great Tutorial! I am new to Web Development. Is there any difference between type aliases and interface?

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Ibrahima Ndaw •

Thanks for reading! This tutorial might help you

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Jaswanth Sai •

Thanks πŸ˜ƒ

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thebronxsystem •

fun project thank you for sharing.

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Reinny Almonte •

First timing with TypeScript. Thanks for this great introduction!

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Edward •

Thanks!

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Erlangga •

It's so great tutorial, thanks