In my current project, we’re using TypeScript (rather than pure Javascript) for a large-scale application with Node.JS on the server side. And I think it’s really awesome🌹 There’s abit of a learning curve at the start but eventually you come to really appreciate the benefits that it offers❤️️
So here’s a brief introduction of what it is and why you may want to consider using it.
What is TypeScript?
- TypeScript is an open source programming language that is developed and maintained by Microsoft in 2012
- TypeScript is designed for large-scale JavaScript application development
- TypeScript brings ‘types’ (or datatypes) to JavaScript.
- TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript, it is a wrapper around JavaScript
- TypeScript is a strongly-typed language and this means that you have to be specific with variable typing
- TypeScript is only for development. To run in browser, it must be converted to either ES6 or ES5 version of JavaScript.
