TypeScript Revealed is a quick 100-page guide to Anders Hejlsberg's new take on JavaScript.
With this brief fast-paced introduction to TypeScript .NET Web and Windows 8 application
developers who are already familiar with JavaScript will easily get up to speed with TypeScript
and decide whether or not to start incorporating it into their own development. TypeScript is
JavaScript for Application-scale development a superset of JavaScript that brings to it an
additional object-oriented-like syntax familiar to .NET programmers that compiles down into
simple clean JavaScript that any browser can run today. It s also tied to the next version of
the JavaScript standard which means that TypeScript will continue to evolve over time to keep
in step with that standard and with the capabilities of the engines that will execute
JavaScript applications. If you are a .NET developer Web designer or developer or a
programmer with a keen interest in scalable applications TypeScript Revealed is a great way to
get started with the language learn how it compiles into JavaScript and how easy it is to
learn from a .NET Java developer's perspective. Takes you through the language features in
Typescript additional to those in JavaScript Describes the tooling and community support for
TypeScript development Discusses how TypeScript can be included in ASP.NET Windows 8 and
node.js application development projects.
