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TypeScript Foundations: Essentials for JavaScript Developers

TypeScript is a terrific tool for introducing a little formality and structure to your JavaScript. This course will teach you how to get up and running with TypeScript today.

Beginner
1h 58m
(1)

Created by Chris Behrens

Last Updated Jul 14, 2025

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TypeScript Foundations: Essentials for JavaScript Developers

TypeScript is a terrific tool for introducing a little formality and structure to your JavaScript. This course will teach you how to get up and running with TypeScript today.

Beginner
1h 58m
(1)

Created by Chris Behrens

Last Updated Jul 14, 2025

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JavaScript rules the development world, but without a typing system and other language features, it is incomplete. In this course, TypeScript Foundations: Essentials for JavaScript Developers, you’ll learn to reap the benefits of TypeScript’s feature layer on top of JavaScript. First, you’ll explore gradual typing and the TypeScript type system. Next, you’ll discover more advanced features like generics, interfaces, and enums. Finally, you’ll learn how to migrate a JavaScript app to TypeScript. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of leveraging TypeScript needed to supercharge your JavaScript applications and processes.

TypeScript Foundations: Essentials for JavaScript Developers
Beginner
1h 58m
(1)
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Chris Behrens - Pluralsight course - TypeScript Foundations: Essentials for JavaScript Developers
Chris Behrens
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Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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