TypeScript

Announcing TypeScript 2.0 RC

August 30, 2016 Aug 30, 2016 08/30/16
Daniel Rosenwasser
TypeScript 2.0 is almost out, and today we're happy to show just how close we are with our release candidate! If you haven't used TypeScript yet, check out the intro tutorial on our website to get started. To start using the RC now, you can download TypeScript 2.0 RC for Visual Studio 2015 (which requires VS Update 3), grab it through NuGet, ...

Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta

July 11, 2016 Jul 11, 2016 07/11/16
Daniel Rosenwasser
Today we're excited to roll out our beta release of TypeScript 2.0. If you're not familiar with TypeScript yet, you can start learning it today on our website. To get your hands on the beta, you can download TypeScript 2.0 Beta for Visual Studio 2015 (which will require VS 2015 Update 3), or just run This release includes plenty of new ...

The Future of Declaration Files

June 15, 2016 Jun 15, 2016 06/15/16
Daniel Rosenwasser
Declaration files ( files) are a fundamental part of using existing JavaScript libraries in TypeScript, but getting them has always been a place where we've known there was room for improvement. As we get closer to TypeScript 2.0, we're very excited to show off a sneak peak of our plan to simplify things. Getting type declarations in ...

Making New TypeScript Projects a Breeze

May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 05/10/16
Daniel Rosenwasser
One of the goals of TypeScript has always been to make writing JavaScript projects a clean, easy, and simple process. We're always looking at where things could be improved and listening to the community to get ideas on how to do this better. You may've recently heard the term "JavaScript fatigue" thrown around to describe the feeling of ...

New TypeScript Website

March 24, 2016 Mar 24, 2016 03/24/16
Bowden Kelly
Today we are thrilled to release a new TypeScript website! The new site delivers a fresh design, more up-to-date documentation, and soon a new series of quick start guides. Documentation TypeScript is developed on GitHub, and as such, all of the documentation is written in markdown on the TypeScript Handbook repo. This is primarily done to ...

Announcing TypeScript 1.8

February 22, 2016 Feb 22, 2016 02/22/16
Bowden Kelly
Today we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.8. In the TypeScript 1.8 Beta release blog post, we highlighted some of the key features that are now available to TypeScript users - how JavaScript in TypeScript compilation provides a great way forward to start converting your JavaScript projects to TypeScript, improvements to JSX...

Announcing TypeScript 1.8 Beta

January 28, 2016 Jan 28, 2016 01/28/16
Bowden Kelly
Today we are releasing a beta of TypeScript 1.8. There are quite a lot of changes coming in the 1.8 release, so please check them out and send us your feedback. TypeScript 1.8 beta is available for Visual Studio 2015, NuGet (Compiler and MSBuild task), npm, and straight from the source. For npm users, make sure to...

Announcing TypeScript 1.7

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
Gaurav Seth [MSFT]
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 1.7 along with the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. This release enables async/await by default for ECMAScript 6 (ES6) targets. It also adds support for polymorphic 'this' typing, proposed ECMAScript 2016 exponentiation syntax, and ES6 module targeting. For a complete ...

What about Async/Await?

November 3, 2015 Nov 3, 2015 11/3/15
phuff
We’ve heard your feedback that you’re excited about async/await in TypeScript. Async/await allows developers to write to asynchronous code flows as if they were synchronous, removing the need for registering event handlers or writing separate callback functions. You may have seen similar patterns in C#. TypeScript’s async/await pattern ...

Announcing TypeScript 1.6

September 16, 2015 Sep 16, 2015 09/16/15
Jonathan Turner [MS]
Today, we're happy to announce the release of TypeScript 1.6.  This release adds support for React/JSX, class expressions, and a rich set of new capabilities in the type system. It also provides stricter type checking for object literals. You can download TypeScript 1.6 for Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, on npm, or as ...