There are many ways in which JavaScript's approach is different from standard, run of the mill, class-based languages, but some of them go unnoticed. Take the whole subject of parameter passing - ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout. I ...

JavaScript should not be judged as if it was a poor version of the other popular languages - it isn't a Java or a C++ clone. It does things its own way. In particular its functions are objects and ...