The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript.

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

TypeScript helps you write better JavaScript, tame large JavaScript projects, and prepare for ECMAScript 6 -- and getting started couldn't be easier If there’s a lingua franca of the modern ...

The Practical Client Storing Lots of Data on the Client in JavaScript and TypeScript IndexedDB allows you to store data on the client to let the user work offline and to reduce demands on the server.

JavaScript, it’s no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The ...

A few years ago, Bloomberg Engineering decided to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language. This article shares some of the insights and lessons we learned during this journey. The ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft went public with the early-preview fruits of a two- to three-year project at the company to create a "superset" of the JavaScript scripting language. That effort, ...

The AI company Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, has developed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the aim of standardizing communication between Large Language Models ...