TypeScript: Introduction
A beginner’s guide to TypeScript (with some history of the TypeScript)
In this lesson, we are going to learn how TypeScript came into existence and what problem it solves. We are also going to take a glance at the TypeScript compilation process.
JavaScript is arguably one of the most popular programming languages as of 2020 and its popularity is just growing day by day. The primary reason why it is so popular is because it is the default language of the web frontend. What that means is that browsers can only understand JavaScript and nothing else.
This unfortunate condition enforced every web developer to become a JavaScript developer. So as the web development industry demand grew for web developers, more and more people became the JavaScript developers.
At first, it seems like a good thing but it’s not that impressive. JavaScript, though it might be on the top of the popularity chart in terms of its use, but I would not use “popular” as the exact word to describe it.
JavaScript is not an old programming language like the C or C++ programming language. Actually it was not even designed to behave like a general-purpose programming…
