TypeScript Skill Overview

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    Category: Technical > Programming languages

Description

TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional types, classes, and modules to the language, enhancing code quality and understandability. It provides advanced features like generics, interfaces, and decorators which help in writing robust code. TypeScript also supports object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, objects, and inheritance. It includes advanced data types and control structures for more complex coding scenarios. With TypeScript, you can write cleaner, self-documenting code that scales well for large-scale applications. Understanding and mastering TypeScript requires learning and applying these various features and concepts effectively.

Expected Behaviors

  • Fundamental Awareness

    At the fundamental awareness level, an individual is expected to have a basic understanding of what TypeScript is and how it relates to JavaScript. They should be aware of the concept of static typing and have a familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts such as classes and interfaces.

  • Novice

    A novice in TypeScript should be able to declare variables, understand basic data types, and create simple functions. They should know how to use basic control structures like if, for, and while statements. They should also understand arrays, tuples, and basic object-oriented programming concepts.

  • Intermediate

    An intermediate TypeScript user should be comfortable using advanced data types like enums, any, void, and never. They should understand generics, namespaces, modules, decorators, and access modifiers. They should be able to work with interfaces, type assertions, optional parameters, and default parameters.

  • Advanced

    At the advanced level, a TypeScript user should be proficient in using advanced features of functions, abstract classes, classes, and interfaces. They should understand type guards and be able to use mapped types, conditional types, and index types. They should also have knowledge of advanced features of decorators.

  • Expert

    An expert in TypeScript should be able to use advanced features of generics, decorators, modules, namespaces, type guards, mapped types, conditional types, and index types. They should have a deep understanding of these concepts and be able to apply them effectively in complex programming tasks.

Micro Skills

Awareness of TypeScript as a superset of JavaScript

Knowledge of the benefits of using TypeScript

Understanding of how TypeScript compiles to JavaScript

Familiarity with JavaScript syntax

Understanding of JavaScript data types

Awareness of basic JavaScript functions and control structures

Understanding of the concept of static typing

Awareness of the benefits of static typing

Basic knowledge of how static typing works in TypeScript

Understanding of what classes are

Awareness of what interfaces are

Basic knowledge of how classes and interfaces work in TypeScript

Understanding of 'let' keyword

Understanding of 'const' keyword

Knowledge of variable scope

Knowledge of number type

Knowledge of string type

Understanding of boolean type

Familiarity with 'null' and 'undefined' types

Awareness of 'any' type

Understanding of function declaration

Knowledge of function expression

Ability to use arrow functions

Understanding of function parameters and return type

Understanding of 'if' statement

Knowledge of 'for' loop

Understanding of 'while' loop

Familiarity with 'switch' statement

Ability to declare and initialize an array

Understanding of array methods

Knowledge of how to declare and use tuples

Understanding of class declaration

Knowledge of object creation

Ability to use constructors

Understanding of instance variables and methods

Understanding of enums and their usage

Knowledge of 'any' type and its implications

Understanding of 'void' type and its usage in functions

Knowledge of 'never' type and its usage

Ability to define generic functions

Understanding of generic interfaces

Knowledge of generic classes

Ability to use constraints in generics

Understanding of how to declare a namespace

Knowledge of how to import and export modules

Ability to use nested namespaces

Understanding of module resolution strategies

Understanding of class decorators

Knowledge of method decorators

Ability to use property decorators

Understanding of parameter decorators

Knowledge of 'public' modifier and its usage

Understanding of 'private' modifier and its implications

Ability to use 'protected' modifier in classes

Understanding of how to declare an interface

Knowledge of optional properties in interfaces

Ability to use readonly properties in interfaces

Understanding of indexable types in interfaces

Knowledge of extending interfaces

Ability to use angle-bracket syntax for type assertion

Understanding of 'as' syntax for type assertion

Knowledge of when to use type assertions

Understanding of how to declare optional parameters

Knowledge of how to assign default values to parameters

Ability to use optional parameters and default parameters in function signatures

Understanding of rest parameters

Knowledge of function overloading

Knowledge of how to declare an abstract class

Understanding of abstract methods

Understanding of static properties

Knowledge of getter/setter methods

Understanding of extending interfaces

Knowledge of optional properties

Ability to use typeof type guards

Knowledge of instanceof type guards

Understanding of user-defined type guards

Understanding of readonly, partial, required, pick, record mapped types

Understanding of distributive conditional types

Knowledge of the infer keyword

Ability to use the index type query operator

Knowledge of the indexed access operator

Understanding of keyof and T[K]

Understanding of generic constraints

Knowledge of keyof operator

Ability to use type in a generic class

Understanding of accessor decorators

Familiarity with parameter decorators

Understanding of dynamic imports

Knowledge of export as namespace

Understanding of merging namespaces

Ability to disambiguate signatures

Knowledge of user-defined type guards

Understanding of typeof type guards

Ability to use instanceof type guards

Understanding of readonly

Knowledge of partial

Ability to use required

Familiarity with pick

Understanding of record

Knowledge of infer keyword

Knowledge of index type query operator

Understanding of indexed access operator

Working with keyof and T[K]

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  • Expert
    3 years work experience
  • Achievement Ownership
    Yes
  • Micro-skills
    103
  • Roles requiring skill
    5
  • Customizable
    Yes
  • Last Update
    Mon Nov 20 2023
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