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TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript created by Microsoft.
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Allows static strick typing
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Extra features - interfaces, enums, tuples, generics
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Support modern features (arrow functions, let, const)
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Based on the .NET harmony specification
- Not suitable for large applications
- Lacks strong typing
- Weird inheritance, unfamiliar syntax
- Only errors during runtime
- Suffers type coercion
- TypeScript = JavaScript
- Compiles to JavaScript - run everywhere
- Familiar OO programming
- New Features work everywhere
- Install Node.js in your machine
- Install TypeScript compiler using
- npm
npm i -g typescript - yarn
yarn global add typescript
- npm