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What is TypeScript?

What is TypeScript?

From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 1 Understanding the Toolchain

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What is TypeScript?

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- [Instructor] Next let's talk about another technology very key to SharePoint framework and, frankly, many other modern JavaScript frameworks. And that is TypeScript. If you go to TypeScript's website, typescriptlang.org, they say that this is JavaScript that scales. And they say is a type super set of JavaScript that compiles to blame JavaScript. Well, that one sentence has got so much embedded in it. If you think of it, TypeScript is the one language that you can write that gives you all the facilities that you need from a higher level language. Strong typing, importing/exporting modules, and many other features. Things that allow you to build better architecture applications. But because it compiles down to plain JavaScript, the advantage you get is that you can use whatever features you want, as long as there's compiling to plain JavaScript, you really don't care where it runs because you know it will run. It will conspire to plain JavaScript. The language that actually runs…

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