TypeScript–Surprisingly Simple, Extraordinarily Powerful

I came to know about TypeScript when I was going through MSDN articles were one of the Microsoft employees (don’t remember his name and neither I have a link handy) was talking about his experience working in Microsoft and he mentioned that when he started using TypeScript it made his JavaScript so much simpler to manage and reduce common JavaScript mistakes.

This prompted me to learn TypeScript specifically because I had been facing JavaScript nightmare wherein it was becoming difficult to even manage 5-6 JavaScript files. I will be writing multiple blog entries on various aspects of TypeScript going forward as I learn.

I have identified the following topics to start with:

1. Introduction on what TypeScript is and why should we look at it
2. Configuring TypeScript in VS
3. Fundamentals including basic types, Syntax available in TypeScript and how JavaScript reacts to it (including Hello World)
4. Classes, Interfaces including encapsulation, inheritance,
5. Modules including AMD
6. Use TypeScript with Jquery, Knockout and other libraries
7. Unit Testing
8. Some interesting links