TLDR: Type safety, productivity, intellisense, and debugging. UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 In continuing with my recent trend of using TypeScript, I wanted to illustrate how to create functions and variables in TypeScript, because this initially threw me into a loop. The code for this example can be found here. JavaScript and C#…
TLDR: Use typings install –ambient <name of framework> to install type definitions UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 The code for this project can be found in this repository. I’m still pretty new to TypeScript and trying to get the hang of things. One thing I’ve had a difficult time with is getting type…
I recently started using TypeScript for a new project, and hit a few snags along the way. The first of which, was that my local project was using an older version of TypeScript, specifically 1.0.3.0 . This was odd, because I had just installed the latest version of TypeScript, but globally and locally. I searched around and…
Join the discussion on Reddit. WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. You will often find developers using it for games, but it is finally gaining widespread visibility across the web, and is now being used…
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I recently started assisting on a demo project with my peer in Raleigh, David Crook, where he is building a service that makes it easy to locate and hire nerds (folks like us) to perform programming tasks. I love using Angular for the front end, and he’s a wizard when it comes to ASP.NET MVC…
If you told me, even one year ago, that Microsoft would begin open sourcing as much technology as they do right now, I would have flat out said “No”.Today at Connect() developer event, Microsoft announced that we’d open source the .NET core. Scott Hanselman explains it best on his blog. Scott Guthrie has more info on…