The latest JavaScript specification standardizes a well-balanced and thoughtful set of features, including the built-in ...

CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements ...

Now modern JavaScript syntax will largely start to work straight out of the box with Googlebot and there are literally dozens of new features available such as the one above.

JavaScript syntax has strict rules for adding monetary symbols, the right number of decimal places and for placing decimal points correctly.

Microsoft announced an ambitious project to inject type syntax into ECMAScript, the official JavaScript standard. While that might sound an awful lot like TypeScript, it's different. The company is ...

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the ...

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.