Making Front-End Development Bearable with TypeScript

It's unavoidable. We need to admit defeat and finally concede that JavaScript IS a real language and it's not going away. Ever. Thankfully, the language is evolving in some good ways to help ease the pain, but those of us who don't want to wait, or want what's coming with some extra benefits, we can use TypeScript! TypeScript is a type-safe JavaScript-like language that compiles to plain old JavaScript. You can write your front-end applications within the warm blanket of strongly typed language knowing that the TypeScript compiler will output plain JavaScript that will run in any browser on any OS. In this session, I'll give you an introduction to TypeScript and show how it can be used in applications to eliminate the pain of traditional JavaScript development.