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.

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 ...

The most widely used ES standards with JavaScript are ES5 and ES6. What is TypeScript? TypeScript (TS) is a JavaScript superset that serves the same goal as JavaScript.

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript -- the world's most popular programming language -- that compiles to JavaScript and is aimed at large coding projects.

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...

JavaScript's popularity among developers has lifted the fortunes of TypeScript, which Microsoft developed to address JavaScript's shortcomings to build complex, large-scale applications, in the latest ...

Microsoft's increasingly popular JavaScript 'superset' has hit the top 10 for the first time in developer analyst RedMonk's influential programming language popularity rankings.