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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Design goals

The following list describes the main design goals and architectural decisions that shaped the way the TypeScript programming language looks today:

  • Statically identify JavaScript constructs that are likely to be errors: The engineers at Microsoft decided that the best way to identify and prevent potential runtime issues was to create a strongly-typed programming language and perform static type checking at compile time. The engineers also designed a language services layer to provide developers with better tools.
  • High compatibility with existing JavaScript code: TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript; this means that any valid JavaScript program is also a valid TypeScript program (with a few small exceptions).
  • Provide a structuring ...
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