Why You Should Love TypeScript - A Practical Guide

Discover the practical benefits and awesome features of TypeScript in this 51-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Explore how TypeScript enhances both React and Angular development, improving the React coding experience with static types. Learn about basic types, enums, abstract classes, function overloading, generics, decorators, type inference, literal types, intersection and union types, map types, and type aliases. Gain insights into why Java developers may initially resist TypeScript and how to overcome framework syndrome. Understand the rise of frameworks, the importance of learning new technologies, and the advantages of using TypeScript with plain JavaScript and various JS libraries.

Introduction
About me
About my company
The most important question
Why Java developers hate TypeScript
Why Java developers hate jQuery
The rise of frameworks
Learning new technologies
Framework syndrome
How to make Java developers hate JavaScript
Why TypeScript
What is TypeScript
Transpiling
Why use TypeScript
TypeScript with plain JavaScript
TypeScript with Hello Js
TypeScript with No Check
Basic Types
Special Types
enum
Abstract Classes
Function Overloading
Generics
decorators
mixing
type inference
literal types
intersection and union types
map types
type aliases