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 ...

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 ...

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses "design mistakes" in Node.js. The Deno ...

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Developed and maintained by Microsoft, TypeScript is an open-source JavaScript syntactical superset language. Ranked 12th on RedMonk’s Programming Language Rankings in 2019, the language is steadily ...

Today, enterprise developers have an enormous number of frameworks at their disposal to build mobile applications. A popular approach is to use a framework such as Apache Cordova to build “hybrid” ...

A few years ago, Bloomberg Engineering decided to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language. This article shares some of the insights and lessons we learned during this journey. The ...

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the ...

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...