In this blog post, we explore ways in which we can make regular expressions easier to use.

JavaScript has two common patterns: Maps: We check the existence of a key via .has() before retrieving the associated value via .get(). Arrays: We check the length of an Array before performing an indexed access. These patterns don’t work as well in TypeScript. This blog post explains why and presen...

In ECMAScript 2025, JavaScript gets a class Iterator with iterator helper methods. This class conflicts with TypeScript’s existing types for iterators. In this blog post, we explore why that is and how TypeScript solves that conflict.

In this blog post, we explore how we can style text that we log to the console in Node.js. Some of the examples use a Unix shell but most of the code should also work on Windows.

Converting values to strings in JavaScript is more complicated than it might seem: Most approaches have values they can’t handle. We don’t always see all of the data.

In this blog post we look at: The current best practice for deploying library packages: .js, .js.map, .d.ts, .d.ts.map, .ts Recent new developments in compiling and deploying TypeScript: type stripping, isolated declarations, JSR, etc. What the future of deploying TypeScript might look like: type st...

In this blog post, we examine how we can test types in TypeScript: First, we look at the library asserttt and the CLI tool ts-expect-error. Then, we consider which functionality could be built into TypeScript.

In JavaScript, code has color: It is either synchronous or asynchronous. In this blog post, we explore: The problems caused by that How to fix them via synchronous await The two downsides that prevent synchronous await from being practical

Today’s announcement by Microsoft: [...] we’ve begun work on a native port of the TypeScript compiler and tools. The native implementation will drastically improve editor startup, reduce most build times by 10×, and substantially reduce memory usage. This blog post looks at some of the details behin...

In this blog post, we explore what unions and intersections of object types can be used for in TypeScript.

Roughly, TypeScript is JavaScript plus type information. The latter is removed before TypeScript code is executed by JavaScript engines. Therefore, writing and deploying TypeScript is more work. Is that added work worth it? In this blog post, I’m going to argue that yes, it is. Read it if you are sk...

Read this blog post if you are a JavaScript programmer and want to get a rough idea of what using TypeScript is like (think first step before learning more details). You’ll get answers to the following questions: How is TypeScript code different from JavaScript code? How is TypeScript code run? How ...

Now that Node.js has built-in support for TypeScript, we can use it as the foundation of simple playgrounds that let us interactively explore TypeScript code.

In this blog post, we explore how we can test that complicated TypeScript types work as expected. To do that, we need assertions at the type level and other tools.

The TypeScript handbook makes an interesting statement: “Often, the checks in a conditional type will provide us with some new information. Just like narrowing with type guards can give us a more specific type, the true branch of a conditional type will further constrain generics by the type we chec...

In this blog post, we look at the special TypeScript type never which, roughly, is the type of things that never happen. As we’ll see, it has a surprising number of applications.

In this blog post, we explore two equivalent notations for Arrays in TypeScript: T[] and Array<T>. I prefer the latter and will explain why.

In this blog post, we examine how TypeScript handles JavaScript symbols at the type level. If you want to refresh your knowledge of JavaScript symbols, you can check out chapter “Symbols” of “Exploring JavaScript”.

A conditional type in TypeScript is an if-then-else expression: Its result is either one of two branches – which one depends on a condition. That is especially useful in generic types. Conditional types are also an essential tool for working with union types because they let us “loop” over them. Rea...

A mapped type is a loop over keys that produces an object or tuple type and looks as follows: {[PropKey in PropKeyUnion]: PropValue} In this blog post, we examine how mapped types work and see examples of using them. Their most importing use cases are transforming objects and mapping tuples.

In this blog post, we explore how we can extract parts of compound types via the infer keyword. It helps if you are loosely familiar with conditional types. You can check out chapter “Conditional types” in “Exploring TypeScript” to read up on them.

TypeDoc now lets us refer to parts of other files via {@includeCode}. In this blog post, I explain how that works and why it’s useful.

TypeScript’s satisfies operator lets us check the type of a value (mostly) without influencing it. In this blog post, we examine how exactly it works and where it’s useful.

In this blog post, we look at how can make things “read-only” in TypeScript – mainly via the keyword readonly.

During the last two years, ESM support in TypeScript, Node.js and browsers has made a lot of progress. In this blog post, I explain my modern setup that is relatively simple – compared to what we had to do in the past:

JavaScript’s Arrays are so flexible that TypeScript provides two different kinds of types for handling them: Array types for arbitrary-length sequences of values that all have the same type – e.g.: Array<string> Tuple types for fixed-length sequences of values where each one may have a different typ...

In this blog post, we take a closer look at template literal types in TypeScript: While their syntax is similar to JavaScript’s template literals, they operate at the type level. Their use cases include: Static syntax checking for string literals Transforming the casing of property names (e.g. from ...

The ECMAScript proposal “RegExp escaping” (by Jordan Harband and Kevin Gibbons) specifies a function RegExp.escape() that, given a string text, creates an escaped version that matches text – if interpreted as a regular expression. This proposal reached stage 4 on 2025-02-18.

In this blog post, we take a closer look at TypeScript enums: How do they work? What are their use cases? What are the alternatives if we don’t want to use them? The blog post concludes with recommendations for what to use when.

I never felt confident about my tsconfig.json. To change that, I went through the official documentation, collected all common options, and documented them in this blog post: This knowledge will enable you to write a tsconfig.json that is cleaner and that you’ll fully understand. If you don’t have t...