Tag: typescript

Angular is back

November 9, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Reintroducing Angular with Angular v17 — Angular first appeared in the shape of AngularJS in 2010 and helped launch a wave of large-scale JavaScript frameworks. Angular remains popular in many use cases but is often overlooked in favor of newer options. v17 takes a leap…

Microsoft spills the tea on TypeScript

September 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

▶ TypeScript Origins: The Documentary — You know you’ve made it when you get your own documentary! This has just dropped but is well produced, packed with stories from TypeScript’s co-creators, users, and other folks at Microsoft, and kept me entertained. It goes particularly deep into…

TypeScript 5.2, Node 20.6, and Astro 3.0

September 7, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

😅 We’re back! After two weeks enjoying the blistering desert heat of Las Vegas and downpours of Storm Hilary, I’m ready to get back to the weekly JavaScript roundups – fingers crossed we’re here each week till Christmas now 🙂__Peter Cooper and the Cooperpress team Good…

Official docs on using TypeScript with React

August 16, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

⛱ I’m taking two weeks off and will be back on Wednesday, September 6. So if you don’t see the newsletter turn up for a while, rest assured it’s not your fault 😉__Peter Cooper, your editor ‘My Experience Modernizing Packages to ESM’ — Mark, well known…

The tale of how static typing came to JavaScript

July 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

TypeScript and the Dawn of Gradual Types — From GitHub’s ReadME project comes a thorough journalistic take on how static typing made it into the JavaScript world, what TypeScript offers, some alternative approaches, and the possibility of adding type annotations to JavaScript iself. Mike Melanson (GitHub)…

Version 1 of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) has reached end-of-support

June 2, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Since its introduction in 2018, AWS CDK has gained significant traction among developers for building Infrastructure as Code solutions. As technology advances and new features emerge, it is inevitable that older versions of tools must reach their end-of-support. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK…

Microsoft shrunk the TypeScript

May 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny Thingamabobs — DeviceScript is a new Microsoft effort to take the TypeScript experience to low-resource microcontroller-based devices. It’s compiled to a custom VM bytecode which can run in such constrained environments. (A bit like Go’s TinyGo.) It’s aimed at VS Code…

Why Svelte is converting TypeScript to JSDoc

May 11, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird — There are plenty of examples of how JavaScript is weird but Sam focuses on the why. If you’ve been a JS developer for many years you’ll have seen it go through many phases and morph to fit its…

Advanced TypeScript Editing Features in CodeLobster IDE

January 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

There are many truly minimalistic TypeScript editors on the software market. But developers get a much greater advantage when TypeScript support is already integrated into their IDE. If you are not a fan of open source tools, you do not have time to learn all…

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