If you are a JavaScript developer, you must have heard about Typescript at one point or another. If you have been reluctant about giving Typescript a try because you are not sure how it could serve ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last month ...

For all JavaScript’s prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don’t like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something ...

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.

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TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today. JavaScript poses certain challenges when ...

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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After 12 months, 95,000 lines of code, and the work of dozens of engineers, Sentry — a startup that makes open source developer software — finished rewriting its entire front-end codebase from ...

Historians who reflect on JavaScript’s emergence as a dominant programming language in the 21st century may find themselves quoting former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “You go to war with the ...