The Beginner's Guide to TypeScript, will get you and your team up to speed with practical TypeScript use in your projects. TypeScript helps us write large applications by introducing static types to JavaScript. JavaScript was designed to be accessible to an audience of developers and non-developers, but when it comes to building large applications, JavaScript development is difficult to scale, largely because we are unable to define explicit contracts between the components that make up our application. Author, Christian Santos, an engineer at Facebook in the performance visualization group, will discuss the following and much more in the 30+ chapters in The Beginner's Guide to - How to get start with TypeScript - The details of various types - so you don't have to use any everywhere - Writing Object-Oriented Code with Types - Using TypeScript with Node.js