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The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript.

JavaScript, it’s no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The ...

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for building apps ...

IndexedDB allows you to store data on the client to let the user work offline and to reduce demands on the server. Here's enough code to both get you started and to show you the difference between ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft went public with the early-preview fruits of a two- to three-year project at the company to create a "superset" of the JavaScript scripting language. That effort, ...

A few years ago, Bloomberg Engineering decided to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language. This article shares some of the insights and lessons we learned during this journey. The ...