TypeScript: A Comprehensive Guide to Static Typing and More

What is TypeScript? Remember that first time you found a bug in your JavaScript code that was just a simple typo? Or when you spent hours debugging only to find out you passed a string where a number was expected? I sure do, and it wasn’t fun! That’s where TypeScript enters the picture. Created by Microsoft and first released in 2012, TypeScript is like JavaScript’s more disciplined sibling. It’s a superset of JavaScript, which means all your existing JavaScript code is already valid TypeScript code (cool, right?). But TypeScript adds something crucial that JavaScript lacks: a robust type system. ...

June 20, 2025 · 9 min · 1809 words