microsoft/TypeScript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #22 among Web repositories ranked this week, and #36 over the last 30 days; #140 of 170 repositories with measured growth this week (top 82%).
This week's +148 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +112 per week.
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 344 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #58 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A superset of JavaScript that adds optional static types and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.
- Enables scalable, maintainable codebases with type safety and tooling support for any browser, host, or OS.
- Use for building large-scale web applications requiring robust type checking and improved developer tooling.
- Use for migrating existing JavaScript projects to a typed language incrementally without losing compatibility.
- Use for developing cross-platform JavaScript libraries with enhanced code quality and early error detection.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript. TypeScript adds optional types to JavaScript that support tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS. TypeScript compiles to readable, standards-based JavaScript. Try it out at the playground, and stay up to date via our blog and Twitter account.
Find others who are using TypeScript at our community page.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+1,738 stars over 90 days across 39 snapshot days; best day +26 on Aug 27.
Forks
15.4K+1.7K
Open issues
5.3K+185
Compared with peers in Web
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pingdotgg/t3code | 52.5K | +14.5K | 40 | today |
| pbakaus/impeccable | 106.2K | +6.9K | 35 | today |
| Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu | 17.0K | +3.9K | 44 | 24 days ago |
| meta/astryx | 16.8K | +2.6K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| paperclipai/paperclip | 112.0K | +2.6K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| microsoft/TypeScript | 111.9K | +148 | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 52.5K | +3.9K | 44 | — |
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