Transpiling with TypeScript
At this point, the basic framework of the application is in place and we’re ready to start developing the application functionality. Since browsers often lag behind Node.js in terms of support for the latest JavaScript features, we need a way to convert modern JavaScript into a common dialect that browsers will understand.
The practice of compiling source code from one programming language into another (or from one language version to another version) is called transpiling. There is a rich tradition of transpiling in the JavaScript community—both from other languages into JavaScript and JavaScript-to-JavaScript. Today, two of the most popular JavaScript transpilers are Babel and TypeScript.
Babel transpiles code ...
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