TypeScript
Who is this guy?
Dale Alleshouse
@HumpbackFreak
hideoushumpbackfreak.com
github.com/dalealleshouse
What is TypeScript?
- Open Source Language by Microsoft
- https://github.com/microsoft/typescript
- Super set of JavaScript
- All valid JavaScript is also valid TypeScript
- Optional static typing
- ES6 Transpiler
- Compiles into JavaScript
- Used by Google for Angular
Why TypeScript?
- Large Scale Application Development
- Static Typing
- Structuring Mechanisms
- Tooling
- Free at run time
- ES6 now
What do I Need
- TypeScript Compiler
- npm install typescript -g
- Comes with Visual Studio
- Definitely Typed
- npm install tsd -g
- Avoid nuget for type definitions
- Editor Plug-ins
- VS Code
- Atom
- Sublime
- etc...
Demo
More Cool Stuff!
- http://www.typescriptlang.org/
- Inheritance
- Much more ES6
- Async/Await
- Decorators
- Generics
- Mixins
- CommonJS/AMD modules
- Union Types
- Tuples