TypeScript adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript, and supports tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS.

TypeScript's development was led by Anders Hejlsberg. Hejlsberg has a long history of developing practical, mainstream programming languages; he was the man behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and C#.

TypeScript is gaining popularity as a type-safe alternative to JavaScript. Here's how to incrementally transform your JavaScript codebase into strongly typed TypeScript.

It's been 10 years since Microsoft unveiled TypeScript, a programming language that would develop alongside JavaScript but offer new ways for developers to manage large and chaotic applications ...

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 ...

Could JavaScript evolve to support a native type system—without needing TypeScript? A new proposal from the TypeScript team, submitted to ECMAScript’s TC39 committee, suggests exactly that. It ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to ...

The responsibilities are clearly separated: TypeScript = JavaScript + Types! This is a wonderful model. It means that the compiler output is human-readable JavaScript, just like the programmer wrote.

JavaScript, TypeScript and component-oriented front-end web app development skills are in demand in 2017, according to Burke Holland, Progress developer advocate. Most new front-end development will ...

Microsoft announced TypeScript 4.5 RC, which includes Nightly-Only ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js, and more.