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 ...

Peter walks through a simple Web page that retrieves and updates data on the server to summarize his best practices for creating the client-side portion of an ASP.NET application. As I write this, the ...

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the ...

TypeScript was once born out of necessity to compensate for JavaScript's greatest weaknesses. For years now, it has been an almost indispensable tool in web development, always slightly ahead of ...

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 ...

At its Build developers conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of the first release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. While this may sound like a minor update, it’s actually a big ...

Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, ...

Payment firm Stripe had used a type system called Flow to check for JavaScript errors since 2016. The firm decided to switch to TypeScript, a programming language, after requests from its engineers.