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This tutorial teaches you TypeScript through 21 interactive screencasts. In less than an hour you'll have the foundation needed to start building apps with TypeScript.
This course contains 22 interactive screencasts
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of JavaScript. Here’s our suggested resource to get you up to speed.
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Follow me on twitterTypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript, aimed at making the language more scalable and reliable. This course will teach you everything you need to know in order to get started with TypeScript. It contains 21 interactive screencasts, and in serveral of them you'll be challenged to solve interactive tasks, so that we're sure you've understood the concepts.
It's important that you have a basic understanding of JavaScript before taking this course. If you need a refresher, please check out our Introduction to JavaScript course here.
The instructor Dylan Israel runs the popular YouTube channel Coding Tutorials 360 and he has also previously created two successful Scrimba courses, so you can rest assured that you're in good hands.
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As always, an answer to these questions is 'it depends'. It is easier if you know some JavaScript or ever worked with typed languages. If not, then Typescript will be a bit harder than JavaScript.
There is no need to learn TypeScript explicitly. It is good to learn, because it forces you to write better JavaScript code, complies to JavaScript but, essentially not required for other frameworks. ES6 is enough JavaScript to work on all libraries and frameworks.
People who work with both say that TypeScript is slightly more difficult to learn, but easier to work within the long term.