Introduction to Typescript world — Part 1

What is Javascript:

Javascript (also called s ECMAScript) started as a simple light weight scripting language without much syntactical overhead to create dynamic HTML pages. But once the potential of what javascript could bring to the www world was realized , the language and browser support developed rapidly .

So, A language that was intended mainly for fast execution in a resource scarce environment like browser suddenly grew into a powerful language that can be used both within browser and outside browser.

Why Javascript or why only javascript:

The first question is why javascript. This is explained well in the below blog.

A Brief History of JavaScript

in summary :

1. During the early days of web HTML was really a simple to use syntax aimed at non programmers, hence the language that will need to be introduced to make the webpages dynamic should have that simplicity. The languages like Java , Python etc offered too much syntactical overhead and was focused mainly on expert…