Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript. JavaScript started out as a scripting language for the Netscape ...

Then two decades later, Microsoft introduced TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript, designed for the development of large web applications. If you know anything about Typescript and JavaScript ...

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 ...

TypeScript is a new language that's based on JavaScript, and which compiles to JavaScript, but which, Microsoft argues, is better suited to the development of "large" applications. Pure ...

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 ...

Further confirming the increasing importance of JavaScript to the Microsoft development community, the company today took the wraps off of TypeScript, an open-source programming language with the goal ...

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript -- the world's most popular programming language -- that compiles to JavaScript and is aimed at large coding projects. RedMonk recently ranked TypeScript as ...

TypeScript is essentially a variant of JavaScript, which long has been the most popular language in RedMonk's rankings. Practically all web applications use at least a little JavaScript on the ...

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 ...