Today we’re excited to announce our Release Candidate of TypeScript 5.1! Between now and the stable release of TypeScript 5.1, we expect no further changes apart from critical bug fixes. To get started using the RC, you can get it through NuGet, or through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Here’s a […]| TypeScript
Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.1! If you’re not yet familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on JavaScript by adding constructs called types. These types can describe some details about our program, and can be checked by TypeScript before they’re compiled away in order to catch possible typos, logic […]| TypeScript
We talk all the time about how to define and use types in TypeScript, but we rarely talk about how TypeScript chooses to display our types. There are often several possible ways to display the same type, and the choice can have a big impact on the usability of your library. TypeScript tries to make good decisions on its own about type display, but it also gives us a few very obscure levers by which we can control it ourselves. Let's dive in to the strange world of type display!| effectivetypescript.com
TypeScript's type system has grown steadily more powerful over the past five years, allowing you to precisely type more and more patterns in JavaScript. The upcoming TypeScript 4.1 release includes a particularly exciting new addition to the type system: template literal types. Template literal types solve a long-standing gap in TypeScript's type system and, as I'll argue at the end of the post, they solve it in a particularly TypeScripty way. To understand template literal types, let's start...| effectivetypescript.com
