Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 edition

April 22, 2025

Cover of the book Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 edition by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, featuring a vintage Continental typewriter.

The chapters of this book are grouped into parts:

  • Meta-content (information about the book etc.):
    • Part “Preliminaries”
  • Using TypeScript almost immediately:
    • Part “Quick start to TypeScript”
  • More information on common TypeScript features:
    • Part “Setting up TypeScript”
    • Part “Basic types”
    • Part “Types for objects, classes, Arrays, and functions”
    • Part “Dealing with ambiguous types”
  • Advanced usage of types:
    • Part “Computing with types”

Required knowledge: You must know JavaScript. If you want to refresh your knowledge: My book “Exploring JavaScript” is free to read online.

Source: Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 edition

Axel Rauschmayer is one of the foremost communicators on web development. You can read his Exploring TypeScript for free online or buy it for a very reasonable price.