Over the past years, the experience for PHP developers has improved a lot with the steady improvement of the type system. In the JavaScript world, TypeScript emerged with a similar goal, to become a JavaScript with syntax for types.

Being a strict sytactical superset of the JavaScript language, TypeScript can even improve working with libraries that are written in pure JavaScript.

In this workshop we get to know the basics of TypeScript. We learn how TypeScript relates to classic JavaScript and dive deep into the type system of the language.