5 Essential Benefits Of Using TypeScript

Jay Krishna Reddy
JavaScript in Plain English
3 min readJun 23, 2021

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TypeScript Benefits

This article will explain the benefits if we use TypeScript in our project. If you are confused about what TypeScript is and why we use it when we have already JavaScript available which is fulfilling all our needs, let's look in detail.

What is TypeScript?

TypeScript is an Open source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is designed for the development of large-scale applications and the most important difference between TypeScript and JavaScript is that they are two different programming languages, though TypeScript is heavily based on JavaScript. In simple people use to call it as TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript It means that all valid code is written in JavaScript is also valid in TypeScript as well.

Benefits of using TypeScript in your project

TypeSafety

As we all know, JavaScript has no types. So it’s hard to control all the parameters and variables that we are using and validate them. Since TypeScript is like JavaScript but with Types. It helps make our code easier to read and avoid errors.

Without defining Type

Typing

Using Classes & Interfaces

Class

Similar to C#, Java, C++ TypeScript also allows us to use Classes inside .ts files. It offers full support for the class keyword introduced in ES2015. TypeScript adds type annotations and another syntax to allow you to express relationships between classes and other types.

Class Members:

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