In June last year Microsoft said VS Code had 11 million users. It's success was built on GitHub, Electron, Chromium, JavaScript, and Microsoft's JavaScript superset, TypeScript. "Traditionally ...

One option is technologies such as transpilers, which make it possible to compile code from other languages to JavaScript. TypeScript: a strongly typed alternative to JavaScript That’s the appro ...

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 ...

As a superset language, TypeScript allows developers to write code in JavaScript and adds new features to create larger, more complex programs, such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.

The firm decided to switch to TypeScript, a programming language, after requests from its engineers. An engineer explains how it used an open-source script to move 3.7 million lines of code in a year.