Deno is a simple, modern, and secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that uses V8 and is built in Rust. Recently Deno 1.0.5 was released, which is a stable version of the runtime. This post is the first in a series delineating the runtime.
In this article, we're going to learn the basics of TypeScript - why it's starting to be widely used nowadays in a lot of projects, its benefits, and how it can help us write better applications by heavily typing our code.
We're going to build a modern app using React and TypeScript, and understand why types are spreading so fast across every JavaScript developer community, helping us build better and safer applications.
This post gets C# developers started building applications with TypeScript, which allows static typing combined with the enormous ecosystem of JavaScript.