TypeScript 1.0RC released
Microsoft has announced the availability of TypeScript 1.0RC, a release candidate of the final version 1.0. According to Microsoft, this release offers a “feature-complete TypeScript 1.0 language with...
View ArticleTypeScript – Accessing Enum Values via a String
Starting with TypeScript 0.9.7, accessing an enum value via a string got a little bit inconveniant. Before 0.9.7 you could do enum Color { RED, GREEN, BLUE } var colorString = "RED"; var enumVal =...
View ArticleInner Classes with TypeScript
In TypeScript, there is no exlicit concept like inner classes. So what you cannot do in TypeScript is as follows: class Foo { export class InnerFoo { } } new Foo.InnerFoo(); You can achieve something...
View ArticleDeclaration Merging with TypeScript
Declaration merging is a very interesting feature of TypeScript, the statically typed superset of JavaScript. As you will see, different things can be merged in TypeScript. The merging is always based...
View ArticleTypeScript 1.0 Released – the statically typed super set of JavaScript
Microsoft announced the availability of the first stable release 1.0 of TypeScript – the statically typed super set of JavaScript. Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 includes TypeScript 1.0 out of the box....
View ArticleECMAScript 6 Delayed To Mid 2015
ECMAScript 6 – the standard for the next iteration of JavaScript – has been delayed to June 2015. Originally, it was scheduled for a release in 2013, then it was delayed to the end of 2014 and now it...
View ArticleSafer TypeScript – Improved Type Safety for TypeScript
Microsoft Research is working on a project called “Safer TypeScript”. It is an alternative type-checker and code generator for TypeScript – the statically typed superset of JavaScript – which offers...
View ArticleGradle 2.0 released with Groovy 2.3 and Java 8 support
Gradleware just released Gradle 2.0 which sets a new backward compatibility baseline. The most prominent changes include an upgrade from Groovy 1.8 to 2.3.2 and support for Java 8. Here is a list of...
View ArticleTypeScript nun bei GitHub, Compiler soll schneller werden, ECMAScript 6...
TypeScript, das statisch typisierte Superset von JavaScript (Vorstellung auf blog.oio.de), zieht von CodePlex um zu GitHub. Dies hat Microsoft nun in einem Blogbeitrag bekanntgegeben. Damit folgt...
View ArticleTypeScript – Nur ein ECMAScript 6 Lückenbüßer?
Diese berechtigte Frage muss sich TypeScript, das statisch typisierte Superset von JavaScript, gefallen lassen. Schließlich bringt ECMAScript 6, die kommende Version des Standards für JavaScript, viele...
View ArticleJavaScript Caching – Adopting Perfect Caching for JS Apps
The Problem JavaScript Single-Page-Applications tend to consist of a lot of JavaScript files. Several hundreds of JS files are no exception. When accessing these applications using a web browser, every...
View ArticleHandling JavaScript Dependencies with Gradle
In the Java world and with build tools like Maven or Gradle, you are used to declarative dependency management. Simply declare which libraries and versions you need, and let the build tool download and...
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