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John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft, and an alumnus of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft RD and MVP programs. His passions are deploying and teaching modern web technologies like Node.js and JavaScript, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the popular Adventures in Angular podcast, author of the Angular Style Guide, and many popular Pluralsight courses.
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Five things about TypeScript 

  • By John Papa, John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a Principal Developer Advocate with Microsoft, and an alumnus of the Google Developer Expert, Microsoft RD and MVP programs. His passions are deploying and teaching modern web technologies like Node.js and JavaScript, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the popular Adventures in Angular podcast, author of the Angular Style Guide, and many popular Pluralsight courses.

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It’s a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain…