Navigating TypeScript: From History to Best Practices

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing with optional type annotations. It was created at Microsoft and first released in 2012.

TypeScript ESLint enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code.

Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O’Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP. He’s also a maintainer of TypeScript ESLint. In this episode, Josh speaks with Paweł Borkowski about the history of TypeScript, why it was created, some of its current limitations, the TypeScript ESLint project, and more.

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