The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript.

TypeScript is a variant of JavaScript that provides strong type information, a powerful development tool that minimizes bugs and makes JavaScript programs easier to build in enterprise settings.

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

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TypeScript is growing in popularity as the go-to programming language for many web applications. It enables developers familiar with JavaScript to program according to the principles and practices ...

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for building apps ...

Could JavaScript evolve to support a native type system—without needing TypeScript? A new proposal from the TypeScript team, submitted to ECMAScript’s TC39 committee, suggests exactly that. It’s ...