A collection of 137 posts
Most every team enjoys easy to maintain and well-organized code that follows a consistent pattern (whatever that pattern may be). When developing with JavaScript it is just as important to follow a pattern to help the developer behind you, perhaps because it is so easy not to. JavaScript is a dynami
Dan Wahlin [http://twitter.com/danwahlin]and I have just published a new course at Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight.com]titled TypeScript Fundamentals [http://jpapa.me/typescript101]. This course walks you through the key concepts and features that you need to know to get started with TypeScript
It’s likely that you’ve used classes and interfaces in statically typed languages to organizing your code into logical units. When you work with JavaScript these constructs do not exist, so we use the excellent replacements like constructor functions and the module pattern. However, you may still mi
Finding errors earlier and more easily is one of the advantages of TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/]. You can use optionally static typed (optionally) variables, functions, objects to help detect possible mismatches in your code right in your editor. Simply add the appropriate type or defi
TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] is touted as a language for “application-scale JavaScript development”. It is a typed (optionally) superset of JavaScript that compiles to JavaScript (ES3 or ES5 compliant, your choice). When Microsoft first released the preview for TypeScript, I was attra
