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locknitpickertoday at 8:17 AM5 repliesview on HN

I was wondering what is the community's opinion on the official TypeScript Handbook

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html


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primitivesuavetoday at 10:25 AM

I love the Typescript handbook, but wanted the examples to be "runnable". It turns out that the TypeScript compiler runs pretty fast in the browser for trivial code snippets, so I threw together https://ts.coach (TypeScript handbook with code examples that execute in the browser + instant type checking)

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wk_endtoday at 9:32 AM

Speaking only for myself, not for the community:

It should be your first resource when looking something up, it's usually quite clear and often helpful, but I find it somewhat confusingly organized and rather incomplete. It's more of a reference than a tutorial or guidebook, per se.

tresiltoday at 10:12 AM

I show people coming from object oriented backgrounds this page first in order to correct the perception that TypeScript is best used with that programming paradigm.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5...

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throwthro0954today at 9:33 AM

I prefer this over everything else I've seen so far, it actually is concise.

throw_awaittoday at 9:40 AM

Good, but it only gives a very brief overview, no explanations

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