TypeScript: first contact

Last update: March 22, 2020

During the last FrontEnders Ticino meetup I talked about TypeScript, the superset of JavaScript created by Microsoft to build robust components. TypeScript is already used by famous projects such as Dojo, Angular and Ionic.

I explored all the syntax features TypeScript 1.6 offers and some compiler options. Here the outline of my talk:

• compilation, source maps, debugging

• functions, classes, interfaces, private and public members

• modules (external), compilation options to generate AMD modules

• casting

• generics

Slides and code samples are online.

Happy hacking!