TypeScript in Practice

Have you have many bugs caused by undefined functions? Is hard to apply oriented object programming in JavaScript? Can’t you use ES6 as the customer’s old browser? TypeScript can help you.

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. It is gathering some popularity as it is making JavaScript better to maintain. It also has been adopted as standard language for some frameworks like Angular 2.

By working over last 2 years by migrating the plain JavaScript into typescript I found some powerful advantages like:

• Good syntax that make oriented object programming easier;
• Programming by using ES6 resources, but generates plain JavaScript ES5 code;
• Working along with plain JavaScript

So, in this meetup you will see:

• Sharing my experience by coding in TypeScript;
• Getting started TypeScript
• The challenges you will deal with if you decide to use this language
• The pros and cons;

Alan Lins is working currently as front end developer in Kemp Technologies with AngularJS 1.x. Over last 2 years he has dealing with development of new features and also migrating the plain code JavaScript into TypeScript which gave him experience about this new language.