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 ...

If you need to create a version of a class from several sources or just want to merge default values with a user's input, object spreading solves your problem. JavaScript won't let you do this (yet) ...

Microsoft has released a beta of TypeScript 6.0, an update to the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant that promises to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase. TypeScript ...

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 ...

TypeScript 5.0, due from Microsoft as a production release on March 16, has been restructured around the use of ECMAScript modules, a major infrastructure change for the strongly typed JavaScript ...