Originally developed by Microsoft as a way to adapt JavaScript as a tool to build enterprise-scale applications, TypeScript has become a widely popular programming language that combines JavaScript syntax with strong typing and object-oriented programming. This article gets you started with an overview of TypeScript, offering a brief history, a rundown of what’s both different…
The JavaScript programming language has a lot of history, but it was created over about — yes — a week in 1995. It was first called LiveScript, but the name was changed to JavaScript to ride the bandwagon for Java, despite having nothing to do with Java. It soon became very popular, enabling the web application revolution…
TypeScript 5.7, the latest planned release of Microsoft’s JavaScript variant with syntax for types, is now available in a production release. With version 5.7, the language’s type system is now able to report errors when variables have never been initialized. General availability was announced November 22, following a November 8 release candidate and an October…
TypeScript 5.7, the latest planned release of Microsoft’s JavaScript variant with syntax for types, is now available as a beta release. With the update, the language’s type system is now able to report errors when variables have never been initialized. Introduced October 9, the TypeScript 5.7 beta can be accessed through NPM using the command…
TypeScript 5.6, the latest version of Microsoft’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, is now available as a production release. The update features capabilities that include disallowing nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness. Unveiled September 9, TypeScript can be accessed via NPM using the following command: npm install -D -typescript….
Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 5.6, an update to the strongly typed JavaScript variant that disallows nullish and truthy checks on syntax that never varies on nullishness or truthiness. The TypeScript 5.6 beta, which follows last month’s production release of TypeScript 5.5, was announced July 26. TypeScript 5.6 can be accessed through NuGet…
