Chapter 2. Gearing up for the Journey
After learning the theory about microservices, we will now move on to hands-on implementation. This chapter will lay the foundation for the journey ahead and will revisit Node.js and TypeScript concepts essential to the book. It will tell you about the trends and adoption rates of both languages. We will go through all the required installations, and we will prepare our development environment. We will test the development environment by implementing the customary Hello World microservice. In this chapter, we will focus on the following topics:
- Setting up the primary development environment: We will set up a primary environment with all the prerequisites needed. We will understand all aspects required for microservice development.
- Primer to TypeScript: In this section, we are going to walk through some of the major TypeScript topics that we are going to use throughout the book. We will justify usage of TypeScript as our language in Node.js, and understand...
