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The world wide web basically runs on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Unfortunately, JavaScript lacks several features that would help developers use it for large-scale applications. Enter TypeScript.

JavaScript may be the language of the web, as Jon Udell wrote back in 2015, but it’s a language that forces us to “battl[e] the language itself” as we try to apply it to more complex problems. As Tom ...