Mastering TypeScript by Nathan Rozentals
ISBN 9781784399665
The TypeScript language and compiler has been a huge success story since its release
in late 2012. It has quickly carved out a solid footprint in the JavaScript development
community, and continues to go from strength to strength. Many large-scale JavaScript projects, including projects by Adobe, Mozilla, and Asana, have made the decision to switch their code base from JavaScript to TypeScript. Recently, the Microsoft and Google teams announced that Angular 2.0 will be developed with TypeScript, thereby merging the AtScript and TypeScript languages into one.
This large-scale industry adoption of TypeScript shows the value of the language, the flexibility of the compiler, and the productivity gains that can be realized with its rich development toolset. On top of this industry support, the ECMAScript 6 standard is getting closer and closer to publication, and TypeScript provides a way
to use features of this standard in our applications today.
