TypeScript: Setting Up and Settling In...
Recently we’ve been considering the move to something better than JavaScript for front-end development, offering type safety and organisational constructs that more readily support robust code. I spent a week exploring TypeScript (a typed ‘superset’ of JavaScript) as a candidate in Visual Studio 2015. Here are the issues and fixes I encountered along the way, relating to initial setup, libraries, unanticipated runtime/compile-time behaviour, and general comments (focusing on
My First Blog Post
So it's been about 8 Months since I graduated from Bristol with an MSc in Computer Science, with distinction! 😅, and I've been wanting to get around to starting a blog for a while now; one that focuses on the endless persuit of becoming a better developer, discussing tools, languages and frameworks, challenges and solutions that I encounter along the way. Since graduating I've been working as a developer at a bespoke software development company called Concept First, in Exet