What is TypeScript?
In this lesson, we will get a high-level understanding of the programming language, TypeScript.
TypeScript is a language on top of JavaScript. Everything possible in JavaScript is available in TypeScript – it is a superset of JavaScript. It provides two strong advantages. The first one is that it transpiles TypeScript into JavaScript so the advanced ECMAScript features not available to all web browsers can be used by providing a polyfill. It acts as a combination of other static checkers combined with Babel.
The second advantage of TypeScript is that it can enforce static typing to catch potential issues earlier in the lifecycle of development. It reduces the need for some unit tests and can analyze the code to find runtime errors at design time.
TypeScript was made public on October 1st 2012, but its inception started at Redmond two years prior as ...