CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

JavaScript provides a number of options -- from simple to complex -- that allows you to format and display numbers as currency. Regardless of which you use, however, the process is not as simple as it ...

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the software ...