What you’ll learn

• Understand the benefits of Type Safety and leverage them to build better programs
• Review of app configuration with Webpack + Babel
• TypeScript in a Nutshell – Generics, Interfaces, Types
• Project init, create configudations for TypeScript app

Requirements

• Basic programming skills are required
• ES6+ JavaScript knowledge is good but not necessary

Description

TypeScript is a programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript and adds optional static typing to the language. TypeScript is designed for the development of large applications and transcompiles to JavaScript. As TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, existing JavaScript programs are also valid TypeScript programs.

TypeScript may be used to develop JavaScript applications for both client-side and server-side execution (as with Node.js or Deno). There are multiple options available for transcompilation. Either the default TypeScript Checker can be used, or the Babel compiler can be invoked to convert TypeScript to JavaScript.

TypeScript is JavaScript with syntax for types.

TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, giving you better tooling at any scale.

On the course we quickly create a basic project and then review the most common features