Go was developed by a team of engineers at Google, primarily Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, who released it publicly in 2009. The primary motivation behind Go’s creation was to address the limitations the team observed in other programming languages, especially when building large, scalable systems at Google. Many of these limitations were…
When installing Go, you have a couple of options. Source Code First, you can install from source code, which means you will need to compile the source code. This allows for a lot of flexibility. However, the code base itself is written in Go, so you will need to download a binary of the Go…
JavaScript, as the language has gotten more complex, has realized that it needs to have the ability to easily import and export code from other modules, while not degrading the performance of a webpage. This is because, by default, a webpage downloads a script and processes it once downloaded, all while blocking all other downloads…
We’ve already briefly looked at classes in TypeScript and classes in JavaScript, so let’s delve a little deeper now. Since TypeScript is just JavaScript, with some added on bits, we can create a class as we normally would with the adding of types as you see below. However, we can overload our constructors to see…
We’ve already talked about interfaces in TypeScript, some with our discussion on Custom Data Types. However, we can go further with what they can do. So we previously had an interface that looked something like: However, we might not want, or even need, all of those properties. Therefore, we can make some of them optional,…
It is common to write a function where the return data type is related to the data type(s) of the parameters passed to the functions. Let’s look at an example of this: This function will return the first element of an array. However, it uses the any data type to allow for any type of…
The tsconfig.json file specifies the root files and the compiler options required to compile a TypeScript project. So presence of a tsconfig.json file in a directory indicates that the directory is the root of a TypeScript project. Without that file, the compiler will continue to move up the directory hierarchy to fine the config file. There is also a…
People, when they come to TypeScript, might have different ideas in mind with how strict they want types checked. Some people don’t want types at all, like JavaScript currently is, and want to use other aspects of TypeScript, while others might want to be very strict. The default experience with TypeScript, where types are optional,…
