Pro TypeScript

Introduction

Atwood’s Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript.

—Jeff Atwood

TypeScript is a language created by Microsoft and released under an open-source Apache 2.0 License (2004). The language is focused on making the development of JavaScript programs scale to many thousands of lines of code. The language attacks the large-scale JavaScript programming problem by offering better design-time tooling, compile-time checking, and dynamic module loading at runtime.

As you might expect from a language created by Microsoft, there is excellent support for TypeScript within Visual Studio, but other development tools have also added support for the language, including WebStorm, Eclipse, Sublime ...