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.

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 ...

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 ...

JavaScript, TypeScript and component-oriented front-end web app development skills are in demand in 2017, according to Burke Holland, Progress developer advocate. Most new front-end development will ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The source code is ...

JavaScript continues to top the lists of programming languages developers know and use, and TypeScript has also come along for the ride. JavaScript's popularity continues to outpace Java, Python, and ...

If you come to TypeScript (or to JavaScript, for that matter) from another language, it's easy to misunderstand how functions are handled. The major difference between functions in ...

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 ...

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 ...