Unlike Dart, Script#, and GWT, however, TypeScript doesn't discard the syntax of JavaScript. Instead, it extends it, with the result that any JavaScript program is automatically a TypeScript ...

If a JavaScript file has no type information or other TypeScript-specific syntax, the TypeScript compiler will not do anything with it. The compiler only starts scrutinizing the code when there ...

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 ...

The export type syntax only provides an export to be used for type contexts and is erased from TypeScript output. TypeScript has used JavaScript’s import syntax to enable reference types.

This leaves TypeScript to concentrate on providing a layer of type syntax and type-checking semantics on top of JavaScript. The responsibilities are clearly separated: TypeScript = JavaScript + Types!

The set of supported TypeScript syntax is dubbed erasable syntax. The latest release of TypeScript (i.e.,, TypeScript 5.8) adds a --erasableSyntaxOnly flag to support this workflow. The Node.js ...

TypeScript syntax isn't that hard to learn ... In TypeScript, source code is compiled into JavaScript code that is run by the JavaScript runtime. For front-end developers, the JavaScript runtime is a ...

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 ...

As interesting -- and controversial, if you check comments around the Web-- as TypeScript is, the back story is equally intriguing. Microsoft has provided a number of HTML5, CSS and JavaScript ...