TypeScript for JavaScript Programmers

by Steve Fenton

This book will quickly introduce you to TypeScript, explain why I think it was created, why you would want to use it and, most importantly, how it works.In the past few years there have been many attempts to fix perceived problems with JavaScript. The solutions have been many and varied. There are books listing sub-sets of JavaScript that recommend you don't use any other features of the language. There are new languages intended to compile to JavaScript or even replace it in the browser. There was even an attempt to move all interactivity on The Web into proprietary plug-ins that needed to be downloaded for the website to be used.Whether you need one of these solutions very much depends on whether you believe JavaScript is fundamentally broken or not - and I don't think it is. It has it's foibles for certain, but JavaScript is one of the most widely adopted languages in the world and there are good reasons for its success.

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a eight-time Microsoft MVP for developer technologies. He’s a Software Punk, an author, a programming-architect, a pragmatist/abstractionist, and a generalising-generalist. He has written books on TypeScript, Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations Monitoring.

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, brief overview of the language. Great if you're already familiar with programming concepts as it lets you know the main features of the language without going into too much "how to" detail.